S. S. GANGULY, J.

( 1 ) THIS first appeal has been preferred by the wife-opposite party from the judgment and decree passed by the learned Additional District Judge, 3rd Court, Midnapore in Matrimonial Suit No. 9 of 1986 awarding thereby a decree of judicial separation in favour of the husband-petitioner.

( 2 ) THE petitioner the respondent henceforward was a primary school teacher at Midnapore town with his ancestral home at Panchkhuri under Midnapore P. S. and very near Midnapore town and the opposite party/ wife the appellant henceforward was a nurse posted at the primary health centre at Sabang within the district of Midnapore, when they were married on 22-5-83 according to Hindu Rites.

( 3 ) THE respondent's case as per his petition u/s. 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act is that after the marriage he brought the appellant to his ancestral home at Panchkhuri. She stayed with the respondent there till the date of Astamangla and thereafter she went away to her quarters attached to the primary health centre at Sabang. Thereafter the appellant spent only one or two nights with him at his home at Panchkhuri within a period of two months from the date of Astamangla and thereafter she n

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