( 1 ) MARRIAGE between the parties who are Christians took place more than 25 years ago. Its dissolution has been sought on the ground of cruelty coupled with adultery.

( 2 ) IT is alleged that right from day one respondent No. 1, i. e. the husband started exhibiting symptoms of cruelty, apathy and lack of interest towards the petitioner and somehow or other the petitioner pulled on with the marriage till the year 1978 in the hope that the respondent No. 1 may change. The impression of the petitioner was that the problems of his character may be due to temperament and not a basic trait of his character that may be incorrigible or unchangeable. That off and on the respondent No. 1 used to come home fully drunk and indulged in physical beatings. However, when alt efforts failed, the petitioner found that respondent No. 1 was psychologically ill and has maniac traits right from his childhood and his character is unsuitable for a marital life and so much so the doctors, psychologists and priests have advised him not to enter into a marital life but the respondent No. 1 played a fraud upon the petitioner and obtained her consent. In spite of the fact that two children were bom to the pe

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