JUDGMENT (Oral)

1. The petitioner/appellant (petitioner in the divorce petition hereinafter referred to as the `appellant') has filed the present appeal against the judgment dated 07.02.2019 vide which his petition for divorce under Section 13 (1) (ia) & 13 (1) (ib) on the ground of cruelty and desertion has been dismissed.

2. The facts in brief are that the appellant got married to the respondent on 29.05.2001 according to the Hindu Custom and Rites. According to him within four months of marriage, the behavior of the respondent/wife became aggressive and within six months she informed him that she was not willing to live with the appellant. Her family came and took her back to Delhi in February, 2002. The petitioner/appellant made sincere efforts in March, 2002 to convince her to join back the matrimonial home, but she refused as she and her family members wanted him to shift from Gujrat to Delhi and stay in their house as ghar-jamai to which he did not agree since he had aged parents to take care of.

3. It is further asserted that from their wedlock one daughter was born on 22.06.2002, but he was not informed about the birth of the child. He made an endeavor to meet the child