Original Petitions one filed under S.18 of the Indian Divorce Act, 1869 (for short "the act" ) for a decree declaring the marriage between the petitioner and the first respondent as null and void. Petitioner is the wife and first respondent is the husband. Second respondent is the father of the first respondent.

2. Petitioner was born as a Hindu belonging to Nair community. First respondent belongs to Latin Catholic Community and is employed as a Conductor in a private bus. According to the petitioner, she met the first respondent during her bus journeys to and from her college at Ernakulam where she has joined as a student for pre-degree course. The acquaintance soon became very close as a result of daily meetings. It is her case that first respondent enticed her, exploited her innocence and procured her love fraudulently. While so, it is her further case that in 1989 petitioner who was doing her second year pre-degree course, was coerced to execute an agreement for marriage on 1-11-1989. Thereafter she was made to believe that as per the agreement executed on 1-11-1989 she was married to the first respondent and was bound to stay with the first respondent in his house.