( 1 ) GEORGE Eliot wrote

"what greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, and to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories. . . . . . . . . . . . ".

( 2 ) BUT what happens, if before two human souls have an, opportunity to feel that they are joined for life, the bond is broken. Such is the case be. fore me.

( 3 ) NECLAM, the appellant, a first year student of the Master of Arts course was married to Mr. Vinod Kalra on 8th October, 1976. Vinod was working at the time as a T. V. Sound Recorder in Lucknow. The marriage took place as a result of the negotiations of the respective parents. It was solemnized in Delhi according to Hindu rites and ceremonies.

( 4 ) ON the nuptial night, Neelam told Vinod that she was neither interested in life nor in her matrimonial obligations. It appears that she was in a state of mental depression and wanted to commit suicide.

( 5 ) ON the next day, 9th October, she 1976. left the house. She was found at Greater Kailash bus stop from where Vinod brought her back.

( 6 ) VINO