( 1 ) THIS letters patent appeal is directed against the order of the learned single judge, dated May 14, 1970, affirming the order of the Additional District Judge, Delhi, dated May 15, 1969, by which the application of the pertitioner/appellant wife under Section 12 (l) (a) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, (hereinafter to be called the Act) for annulment of the marriage with the respondent-husband by a decree of nullity on the ground of importency or in the alternative for grant of a decree for judicial separation under Section 10 (1) (a) and (b) of the Act, on the ground of desertion and cruelty, was dismissed.

( 2 ) THE marriage of the parties took place in Delhi on April 14,1954. At the time of the marriage the appellant was about 16 years and the respondent was about 30 years. It was alleged in the petition that after the marriage the parties stayed in Delhi for about 10 days and though the respondent tried for sexual intercourse with the appellant but could not consummate the marriage as he could not get proper erection and got discharged before he could perform the act. The respondent had some inferiority complex and could not perform the Act. Thereafter the resp