TARLOK SINGH CHAUHAN
Tarun Mahant – Appellant
Versus
Surabhi Mahant – Respondent
JUDGMENT
Tarlok Singh Chauhan, J —This appeal is filed by the husband, who has been denied a decree of divorce by the learned Court below.
2. The appellant/petitioner filed a petition for dissolution of the marriage under Section 13 (1) (a) of the Hindu Marriage Act, (for short ''Act'') against the respondent on the allegation that the marriage was solemnized on 19.1.2001 and out of the said wedlock, one daughter was born. It was averred by the petitioner that after the marriage, the conduct of the respondent was cruel towards him and his family members and she otherwise had deserted him without any reasonable cause and had left the matrimonial home. The petitioner elaborated the act of cruelty by stating that the respondent used to threaten him and his family members that she would implicate them in a criminal case and once she had even consumed poisonous substance. All these acts, according to the petitioner had raised a reasonable apprehension in the mind of the petitioner that it would be injurious and harmful to live with the respondent. Not only this, the respondent had lodged a false complaint against the petitioner and his parents under Section 498-A IPC, wherein the petitio
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