JUDGMENT :

Biren Vaishnav, J.

1. This First Appeal has been filed by the appellant/ husband- Mandeepsingh Indrajitsingh Makhija, challenging the judgment and decree dated 27.04.2023 passed by learned Family Court No.5, Ahmedabad in Family Suit No.467 of 2017. By the aforesaid judgment and decree, the Family Suit No.467 of 2017 filed by the wife- Manpreetkaur, for dissolution of marriage under Section 13 (1)(i-a) of the Hindu Marriage Act, (henceforth, “the Act”), was allowed.

2. The respondent-wife had approached the Family Court for divorce. It was her case that the marriage between the appellant and the respondent was solemnized on 13.11.2013. The couple started to live together at Delhi. Post shifting to Ahmedabad, it appears that the differences arose between them, as a result of which, particularly, in the year-2015, when the appellant went to the US, things became difficult for her, and therefore, she was constrained to move the Family Court at Ahmedabad for filing a petition for divorce.

3. Mr. Manmeetsingh P. Chhabra, learned counsel for the appellant, would submit as under:

3.1 That for the first time, the seeds of discontent were sown when an FIR was filed against the appellan