( 1 ) THIS is one of those unfortunate matters in which a relentless and obdurate attitude has been adopted by the relations or friends advising the petitioner with a view to reducing the opponent-wife to an apparently helpless situation. The petitioner before me is the husband of the opponent. The marriage of the parties took place at Ahmedabad as far back as on December 6 1945 After this marriage the petitioner and the opponent lived and cohabited together as husband and wife. It is the opponents allegation that after her marriage the petitioner at times sometimes behaved like an insane person. The conduct of the petitioner from which the opponent came to such a conclusion was from instances of his breaking window-panes of his attempt to break doors quarrels etc. According to her his sense of discrimination between good and evil right and wrong became less and less as time went on and ultimately vanished. In 1949 she went for her delivery to Bombay to her fathers place and at that time she was informed that the petitioner had run away and was not to be found. Subsequently after he was found his name and address had to be tattooed on his hand so that if he again went