VEERENDR SINGH SIRADHANA, J.

1. Aggrieved of the judgment and order dated 8th October, 2007 the appellant has instituted the present appeal.

2. Briefly, the essential skeletal material facts necessary for appreciation of the controversy are that non-appellant-wife- Smt. Santosh Devi, instituted an application under Section 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (for short the "Act of 1955"), with a prayer for dissolution of her marriage with the appellant-husband that was solemnized on 3rd October, 1997. The non-appellant-wife in her application instituted on 31st August, 2005, pleaded that the appellant-husband and his family members subjected to cruelty for dowry. It is pleaded case of the non-appellant-wife that she was subjected to mental and physical torture. Further the appellant-husband was a drunkard. On account of serious matrimonial discord, she left the matrimonial home and resided with her parents since 8th July, 1998. Narrating the incident of 21st January, 1998, the non-appellant wife also alleged sexual harassment at the hands of the brother of her father-in-law.

3. From the materials available on record, it is also reflected that the appellant-husband has institu