JUDGMENT (Oral)

Suresh Kumar Kait, J.

1. The appeal has been preferred on behalf of the appellant/wife against the judgment dated 11.11.2021 passed by the Ld. Principal Judge, Family Courts, South West District, New Delhi vide which respondent/husband's petition u/s 13 (1)(i -a) of Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 for divorce on the ground of cruelty has been allowed and marriage between the appellant and respondent dissolved.

2. The facts in brief are that parties to the present Appeal got married on 24.11.2012 according Hindu rites & customs. There is no child from the said wedlock. The appellant left the matrimonial home on 19.02.2014 and is residing separately since then.

3. The respondent/husband in his petition for divorce asserted that the Appellant herein subjected him and his family members to various acts of cruelty elucidated as under:

(i) On the first night of marriage, the appellant bolted the respondent inside the room and she remained out throughout the night. The appellant was not interested in establishing sexual relations with him.

(ii) The appellant refused to prepare food and do household work and raised quarrels in the evening when the respondent returned home.

(iii) Sh