1. These appeals, one by the husband and the other by the wife, exemplify bow domestic peace and harmony is broken by the inability of a spouse to adjust himself or herself to the new environment created by the marital status. The evidence in the case discloses the dormant anxiety of the wife to be in her rightful place with her husband, and the eagerness of the husband to be beside his wife. However, for the wife her in-laws come in between her and her husband and according to the husband he cannot discard his aged parents. An embarassing situation is the result, and both have approached the courts, each one to vindicate his or her respective stand, husband seeking restitution of conjugal rights and wife claiming maintenance. Both got the reliefs prayed for. and the defeated spouse in each of the proceedings has preferred these appeals. A.S. No. 496 of 1972 is by the wife and A.S. No. 313 of 1973 (A.S. No. 76 of 1973 of the Additional Sub Court, Trivandrum, which was withdrawn to this Court) is by the husband. We will be referring the parties throughout this judgment according to their rank in the main appeal, A.S. No. 496 of 1972.

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