Chhangani, J.—This is an appeal by Gurdeosingh against the order of the Civil Judge, Ganganagar, who accepting the application of the respondent Daulat Kaur under sec. 25 the Guardians and Wards Act directing him to deliver his minor son Darshan Singh into the custody of the respondent. The relevant facts are these:—

2. The appellant Gurdeosingh married the respondent Daulat Kaur some time in the year 1947. Out of this union the minor Darshansingh was born in the year 1950. In the year 1952 or 1953 Gurdeosingh married another wife Mst. Mukhtiar. Some time after the second marriage relations between the husband and his first wife got strained and the petitioners case is that Gurdeosingh began to ill-treat her and her son Darshan Singh. It is further alleged that some time in July, 1955, Gurdeosingh turned her out of his house and the minor son was kept by Gurdeosingh in his custody. In August, 1955, Daulat Kaur put an application in the Court of Senior Civil Judge under sec. 25 of the Guardians and Wards Act and prayed for an order directing that the minor should be delivered in her custody. The main grounds on which the petition was based are that Gurdeosingh and his second wife Muk

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