( 1 ) THIS is husband's appeal against dismissal of his application for declaration of his marriage with respondent No. 1, the wife, as nullity and for consequential reliefs, preferred in this Court briefly, in the following circumstances :

( 2 ) SHORTLY put, the petitioner's case is that on the negotiations of the appellant's uncle and other relations and the father of the first respondent, marriage between him and the first respondent was solemnised on 4th June, 1964 after performing Hindu rites of "sampradan and Kusandika" at the residence of the first respondent. But after solemnisation of marriage when the first respondent was brought to the residence of the appellant on 5th June, 1964 at about 7. 15 p. m. she was found not to have been behaving like a normal person at night. As according to the custom that was a night technically called "kal Ratri" when the husband and wife could not meet, she had to remain in a separate room. There she insisted on closing all windows and doors and pulling off the ceiling fan although it was extremely hot. She also covered her body with a thick bed-sheet by lying on the bed and indulged in incoherent talks behaving like a lun