Horwill, J.

1. The petitioner was an Assistant Engineer in the Mysore State for 9 years. He then took service with the Ceylon Government; but after sometime gave up that post because his wife (the petitioner in the lower Court) refused to live with him there. He then returned to his old post in Mysore and rented a house in the Bangalore Civil and Military Station. Although he and his wife had not been getting on well for many years, she consented to come and live with him in Bangalore after Panchayatdars had mediated between them. She had been there for about two months, when the petitioner who had left her jewels in Ceylon because he apprehended that he would have to pay customs duty if he brought them back to India with him, persuaded his wife to accompany him back to Ceylon and wear the jewels; for by her so doing, they could avoid paying duty on them. On their return from this short visit to Ceylon, they halted at Trichinopoly, where both the brother of the petitioner and her father live, and went to stay in the house of the petitioners brother. During the few days they remained there, the petitioner ill-treated his wife--the Magistrate finds--and drove her out of the house