P.V. Narayanan Nambiar, J.

The Original Petition is filed under Ss.10 & 18 of the Indian Divorce Act with the following allegations:

2. The petitioner and the respondent are Christians and their marriage was solemnised on 15.8.1982 in accordance with the custom of the community. Though initially the petitioner and her parents were not interested in the marriage proposal, the marriage was solemnised due to the insistence of the respondent. At the time of marriage, the respondent was employed in U.A.E. After the marriage, they lived together at the residence of the petitioner for four days. During the first night, the respondent pretended to be ill.

She saw him taking medicines from the next day onwards. She was told that the respondent was suffering from jaundice for which he was taking some Ayurvedic medicines and so she was to keep herself away from him. Thus the marriage could not be consummated. The respondent left for U.A.E. promising that he would secure a job for the petitioner at the earliest so that she could join him. He returned to India after about 11/2 years in February, 1984. Then they stayed together for 28 days, but he abstained from having sexual intercours