M. Anantanarayanan, O.C.J.-

This Letters Patent Appeal has been instituted by one Subbarama Reddiar, the respondent before Venkatadri, J., in C.M.S.No. 9 of 1964, from the judgment and decree of the learned Judge. We may very briefly state that the proceeding before the learned Judge was of the nature of a Second Appeal, in respect of a petition under section 10 (f) and section 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act (XXV of 1955), for a decree for judicial separation originally before the learned Principal Subordinate Judge of Chingleput.

The learned Principal Subordinate Judge of Chingleput went into the facts of the evidence before him, elaborately on the merits, and held that the act of adultery alleged by the husband (appellant) against his wife Saraswathi Ammal (Respondent) on the occasion in question, was legally proved, and hence that the husband was entitled to a decree for judicial separation Under section 10(f) of the Hindu Marriage Act. The matter went up on appeal to the learned District Judge of Chingleput (C.M.A. No. 64 of 1962), and the learned District Judge of Chingleput confirmed the judgment of the Court below in first appeal, in a judgment of some length, which again procee

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