( 1 ) THIS appeal arises out of matrimonial proceedings. The appellant husband and the respondent wife married on 16/06/1962. On 27/03/1964 the wifes brother went to the matrimonial home of the wife who left with him. It appears that she left her matrimonial home with her brother on account of differences of opinion between the two spouses. On 23/07/1964 the husband approached Jyoti Sangh in order to obtain help from it to persuade the wife to return to him. It yielded no result. On 15/08/1965 husband is said to have made another attempt through his friend Mukund to persuade the wife to return to him. That attempt also failed. In April 1967 a third attempt was made which also failed. In August 1970 more than six years after the wife left the husband the husband sent a registered notice to the wife in which he alleged that she had wilfully deserted him. The wife did not reply to that letter. On 8/09/1970 the husband filed against the wife Hindu Marriage Petition No. 75 of 1970 for obtaining judicial separation from her. On 15/01/1971 the wife filed her written statement in that petition in which she inter alia alleged that she had left with the husband ornaments worth