Anupinder Singh grewal, J.

This intra court appeal is directed against the order of learned Single Judge dated 29.11.2001 passed in S.B. Civil Misc. Appeal No. 218/1996 whereby while accepting the appeal, the decree of the trial court granting divorce to the parties was set aside.

2. The parties had married in accordance with Hindu rites in 1983. They are stated to have lived together from 1983 till 1990. A child was also born on 02.11.1989, where after their relationship was strained. The appellant husband (hereinafter referred to as the 'husband') had filed a petition seeking dissolution of marriage on the ground of cruelty. It was alleged by the husband that after 1989, the respondent wife (hereinafter referred to as the 'wife') had left the matrimonial home on her own and started living with her parents. Her behaviour and attitude was very cruel. She was short-tempered & quarrelsome, and always out to create unpleasant scenes. She had refused to work at home and was not preparing meals and even threatened that she would commit suicide. It was also alleged that conduct of the wife towards the mother of the husband was quarrelsome. In the written statement filed by the wi