JUDGMENT :

Harish Tandon, J.:

1. The husband, being unsuccessful in the Trial Court, has filed an instant appeal assailing the judgment and decree dated 7th September, 2019 passed by the learned Additional District Judge (Re-designated) Court, Bankura in matrimonial suit no. 127 of 2014.

2. The aforementioned matrimonial suit was registered on the basis of an application filed under Section 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act 1955 by the husband/appellant inter alia on the ground of desertion and cruelty. The said application proceeds that the parties were married according to Hindu rituals and rites on 3rd July, 2004 and continued to live together till the year 2012. The parties after the solemnization of marriage lived together and upon consummation a son is born on 3rd January, 2007 and the daughter is born on 6th November, 2009. It is alleged in the said application that since the beginning of the marriage the respondent was raising an issue relating to the lifestyle, food habits and the family affairs of the husband on the pretext that she has been brought up in an affluent family and the standard of the husband family is not commensurate with her family. It is further alleged that the