A.B. Pal, J.

1. Heard Mr. D. Chakraborty, learned Counsel for the petitioner and Mr. A.K. Deb, learned Counsel for the respondent.

2. This civil revision petition is directed against the judgment dated 24-5-2000 passed by the learned District Judge, West Tripura in T.S. (Divorce) No. 67 of 1998 dismissing the suit of the petitioner-husband.

3. The petitioner and the respondent got married on 6-12-74 and were blessed with a daughter in 1976. While the petitioner-husband is a primary school teacher, the respondent-wife is an employee in the department of DRDA. The marriage, however, suffered set back and on 15-2-1979, the wife left the marital home with her daughter and started to live in her parents' house. The petitioner filed on 18-1-85, a divorce suit registered as TS (Divorce) No. 4 of 85 on the ground of desertion and cruelty. That suit was dismissed. An appeal was taken against the dismissal which was registered as F.A. No. 13 of 1988. The appeal was also dismissed on 1-3-1996. The spouses, however, continued to live separately as no re-approachment was possible. The husband filed the second suit for divorce registered as TS (Divorce) No. 67 of 1998 and this time on grounds