CHITTATOSH MOOKERJEE, J.

( 1 ) THE principal question in this appeal is whether the learned Additional District Judge, 2nd Court, Alipore was justified in dissolving the marriage of the appellant wife with the respondent husband on the ground that she had treated her husband with cruelty within the meaning of Section 13 (1) (ia) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955.

( 2 ) ON 12th December, 1976 the marriage of the parties took place according to Hindu rites at Baguihati, P. S. Rajarhat, District 24 Parganas. At the time of the marriage, the petitioner, husband (respondent herein) was aged about 36 years and the appellant wife was aged about 28 years. After marriage, they had lived at the husband's joint family residence at 27/1/1b, Jiban Krishna Mitra Road, P. S. Chitpur, District 24 Parganas. The petitioner husband's widowed mother, his sister who had been divorced from her husband and his three brothers used to live with him. One brother subsequently died. Soon after her marriage, the appellant wife had conceived and on 9th October, 1967 in a nursing home, at North Calcutta, she had given birth to a daughter. During then married life the appellant, Krishna, on several occasions had

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