MAHINDER NARAIN J. (Oral)

( 1 ) THIS is a husbands appeal from a judgment dated 30th March. 1983, passed in Hindu Marriage Act case No. 383 of 1980. by the Additional District Judge, Delhi.

( 2 ) THE husband had filed a petition for decree of divorce under section 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 19-55. It was stated in the petition that a marriage between the parties was solemnized according to the Hindu rites on 31-1-1979. The marriage was a simple affair. The petition of the husband was found upon t. ie cruelty. Paragraphs 6, 7 and 8 of the petition read as under :-

"6. That the behaviour of the respondent was not normal with the petitioner. She behaved in a very unto ward and abnormal manner with the petitioner and the members of his family. She would not do any of the house-hold duties and would complaint that after attending office, she was dead-tired. She also complained that she was not used to domestic chores as she had never worked in the home and declared that she would not do any house-hold work. Time and again the respondent would ask the petitioner to start residing separately Instead of residing with his parents and other family members. The petitioner fried to reason wi

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