1. SHRI Dipak Kumar Roy, husband (for brevity the petitioner), could not succeed before the court of the District Judge, Purulia in. obtaining the Decree of Divorce against Sm. Anjali Roy, his wife (for short mentioned as the Respondent hereafter. He has, therefore, come up in appeal under Section 2 8 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (for short mentioned as the said Act hereafter), against the judgment dated April 6, 1983 of the learned District Judge, Purulia, dismissing his suit.

2. THE dissolution of marriage was claimed by the petitioner on the allegations that the Respondent committed adultery and treated the petitioner with cruelty. It was his case that according to Hindu rites, thee marriage between the petitioner and the respondent took place at village Kumardanga, P. S. Onda, district Bankura and in the house of the father of the respondent on 31st May, 1978, when the petitioner was aged 38 years and the Respondent was about 25/27 years old and the marriage was consumated and a son was born on 2nd April 1979. It has also been stated that after the solemnization of the marriage, the petitioner came to his residence at Palashola with his wife and from the date of arri