1. This appeal is directed against the judgment and order passed in T.S. No. 4(Div.)/2004 dated 30.5.2005 by the learned Addl. District Judge (F.T.C.), North Tripura, Kailashahar, thereby dissolving the marriage between the Appellant and the Respondent by granting the decree of divorce as prayed for by the husband/Respondent.

2. Heard Mr. P. Roy Barman, learned Counsel for the Appellant/wife and Mr. D.B. Sengupta, learned Counsel for the Plaintiff/Respondent.

3. The case of the Plaintiff/Respondent as pleaded in the plaint is that his first wife having expired on 24.7.1998 in a vehicular accident leaving three minor daughters, the Plaintiff married the Defendant/Appellant primarily to look after his children and age old mother following Hindu rights and customs on 23.10.1998. That the Appellant/wife concealed the actual date of birth at the time of marriage and she was also suffering from certain ailments which were not disclosed to the Plaintiff, that after the marriage, the Defendant/wife began to torture the minor daughters and the old mother of the Plaintiff brutally and on a number of occasions they were kept in starvation without giving any food and she never perform he