JUDGMENT :

M.B. Snehalatha, J.

1. By this judgment, we are disposing of Mat.Appeal.No. 283/24 preferred by the husband challenging the judgment and decree of divorce granted by the Family Court and Mat.Appeal.No.895/2024 filed by him challenging the judgment and decree declining the relief of restitution of conjugal rights sought by him.

2. Since the issues involved in both these appeals are interlinked and intertwined, both these appeals are jointly disposed of for the sake of convenience and to avoid conflict of decisions.

3. Parties in this appeal shall be referred to by their rank in O.P.No.254/2020 as the petitioner and the respondent.

4. The petitioner/wife filed O.P.No.254/2020 seeking dissolution of marriage under Section 10(1)(x) of the Divorce Act , 1869 stating that her marriage with the respondent/ husband was solemnized on 31.12.2018 as per rites and ceremonies of Christians; that at the time of marriage, she was working as a Sub Engineer at Techno Park, Thiruvananthapuram and the respondent was doing M S in Mechanical Engineering at United Kingdom of Britain. She contended that at the time of fixing the marriage, the respondent had told her and her family that he has got c