[Katakey, J.]

This appeal, by the wife, is directed against the judgment and decree dated 24.05.2013, passed by the learned District Judge, Barpeta, in Divorce Title Suit No.13/2010, decreeing the suit of the respondent dissolving the marriage between the appellant and the respondent by a decree of divorce, on the ground that the marriage between the parties has irretrievably broken down.

2. An application under Section 13(1)(i) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (in short the 1955 Act), has been filed by the respondent herein praying for dissolution of the marriage with the appellant herein, contending inter alia that though the marriage between the parties was solemnized on 13.02.2004, out of which wedlock a boy was born, who was 5(five) years old, the appellant/wife has started treating the respondent/husband as well as his family members with cruelty by using harsh and filthy languages causing mental pain to them, who often went away to her parents’ house with the minor child without the knowledge and consent of the husband, thereby causing inconvenience and hardship to him. The further pleaded case is that on 20.08.2006 the respondent has left husband alon