1. - This appeal is directed against the judgment and decree dated December 17, 1981, whereby the appellant's petition under Section 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (hereinafter referred to as "the Act"), was dismissed.

2. The petitioner-appellant Mst. Meera presented a petition on 21-11-1980 for divorce alleging that she was married to the non-petitioner-respondent Purshottam some 21 years age (that is on Pos Sudi 3, St. 2034, as in evidence). She lived with her husband at Barmer for more than a year and during her stay at her in laws' house. She was not behaved properly. She was tortured and her husband used to say to her that she will have to commit with his father Dhoklaram, that is, the petitioner's father-in-law. When she refused for it, her husband and her mother-in-law and her father-in-law started beating her and misbehaving with her. When her brother Bhuraram had come to see her, she narrated the matter to him. Thereupon, he protested to her husband and to her father-in law and they refused to send her along with Bhuraram. Thereafter her brothers Vajja and Bhuraram came to fetch her. Thereupon she was sent with them to her father's house. It was also alleged th