A. A. SAYED, J. :- This appeal impugns the judgment and order dated 16-10-2004, passed by the Civil Judge, S.D. Kalyan, whereby the suit under section 18 of Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act of the appellant-wife seeking maintenance and residence has been partly decreed and the appellant-wife has been granted maintenance of Rs.10,000/- per month from 1/11/1999 onwards and her prayer for separate residence is rejected.

2. By this appeal the appellant-wife is seeking enhancement of maintenance with effect from 24th December, 1996 at the rate of Rs.2 lac per month with interest and separate residence at Ulhasnagar with all modern amenities. The case of the appellant wife is that she got married to respondent-husband on 21-7-1996. At that time, the respondent-husband was serving in St. Marten, North America as Manager on contract for a period of three years and that he agreed to take the appellant-wife along with him after marriage. According to the appellant-wife, her parents had given to her 10 to las gold ornaments and diamond studded jewellery as stridhan. There is no issue from the wedlock. After the marriage they cohabited only for about 10 days. The appellant husband th