A.B. Pal, J.

1. The judgment dated 27.7.1998 passed by learned Additional District Judge, West Tripura, Agartala in T.S. (Divorce) 32 of 1990 dissolving the marriage between the appellant wife and the respondent husband herein has been called in question in the present appeal.

2. We have heard Mr. S. Deb, learned Senior Counsel, assisted by Mr. R. Dasgupta, learned Counsel for the appellant wife and Mr. A. K. Bhowmik, learned Senior Counsel, assisted by Mr. P. Deb Roy as well as Mrs. K. Deb, learned Counsel for the respondent husband.

3. The background fact of the failed marriage may be briefly noticed thus:

The marriage between the parties had taken place on 26.1.1989 at Agartala, the capital of the State, in the house of the parents of the appellant wife performing the rituals of Hindu marriage. The respondent husband comes from a rural area known as Khowai and he is a teacher by profession. It is the allegation of the husband that from the very first night of the marriage the conjugal relation suffered jolts when to his dismay he discovered the bride behaving abnormally and not responding favourably to his sexual approaches. With the passage of time, his relation stumbled ag