M. L. JAIN, J.

( 1 ) THIS is wifes appeal against the judgment and decree passed by the learned district Judge, Jodhpur, and dated January 4, 1977, by which he granted a decree of divorce to her husband.

( 2 ) RESPONDENT Kailsh Singh Parihar a pilot officer (now a Squadron Leader) son of a Judge of this court (now Retd.) and appellant Priti a daughter of an army medical officer with the rank of Colonel (now retd-) and educated in a convent were married on May 9, 1968, in Jodhpur. Both come of the two prominent families of the Mali community. Their marriage was not even four years old before it came crashing down and the husband preferred an application on january 11, 1972, for judicial separation on the grounds of desertion and mental cruelty under Section 10 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, which shall hereinafter be called the Act. The Act was amended on May 24, 1972. It was later on converted into a petition for divorce on July 7, 1976, The allegations commence right from the time the bride crossed the threshold to receive her groom at the time of the "toran" ceremony. It is complained that she had no veil on her face- Since the respondent made her then cover her face,