S. Muralidhar, J.

1. This appeal is directed against the judgment dated 23.9.2005 passed by the Additional District Judge, Delhi in HMA No. 485/2001. By the impugned judgment, the learned ADJ dismissed the appellants petition seeking divorce from the respondent on the grounds of cruelty.

Background facts

2. The marriage of the appellant with respondent was solemnized on 24.11.1999 according to the Hindu rites and ceremonies. It is the case of the appellant that that six days after the marriage on 30.11.1999, parents of the respondent took her away on the pretext of her having to attend classes for a computer course. Thereafter, the respondent joined appellant on 3.2.2000. It is stated that she behaved like stranger; she was insisting on living separately; hardly entered the kitchen to help his mother in the household work and started creating scenes in the house unnecessarily. She again left for maternal house with her brother on 15.3.2000 and the appellant brought her back on 3.4.2000. On 30.4.2000 when she received call that her mother was seriously ill, the respondent left the matrimonial home again. According to the appellant, when he went to the house of the respondent