P.D. Dinakaran, J.

The above appeal is directed against the order dated 1. 2002 passed in F.C.O.P.No.40 of 1999 on the file of II Additional Principal Judge, Family Court, Chennai, annulling the marriage between the petitioner and the respondent that took place on 2. 1998 on the ground that the respondent wife has been subjected to recurrent attacks of insanity, the consent of the petitioner husband for marriage was obtained by fraud and the respondent wife was pregnant at the time of marriage through some other person.

2. Facts, in nutshell, are as follows:-

2. 1. The marriage of the petitioner husband with the respondent wife, which was an arranged one, was solemnized on 2. 1998 at Hotel Kanchi, Chennai, according to Hindu rites and customs. It is alleged in the petition filed by the petitioner husband that even during nuptials, which was arranged in the house of the respondent wife, she was restless and she took some tablets and after some time, she was drowsy and immediately went to bed. It is also alleged that the marriage is not consummated.

2. 2. It is the case of petitioner husband that the respondent wife was taken to the doctors, who treated her for mental ill