Honble KOKJE, A.C.J–This is a Reference made by Family Court, Ajmer, for confirmation of decree of divorce dated 16.1.1993, dissolving the marriage between the parties.

(2). The parties who profess Christianity were married on 23.7.1990 at Ajmer. They lived together for some time but ultimately on 28.7.1991, according to the pe- titioner husband, she left the matrimonial home. The petitioner further alleged that on searching the luggage left by the respondent wife some objectionable correspondence and photographs were discovered. The petitioner came to know from the correspondence and photographs that his wife respondent No. 1 was carrying on immoral affair with respondent No. 2, one Shri Sunil Goyal. He, therefore, sought a divorce on the ground of adultry committed by the wife. In reply to the petition, the wife respondent No. 1 denied having committed adultry but put forward a claim for divorce on her own grounds. She alleged that the petitioner was not behaving properly with her. He used to get drunk and used to assault her. Respondent No. 2 Sunil Goyal did not participate in the proceedings and the proceedings went on ex- parte against him. Petitioner Stanely D. Crooze examined

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