ORDER : - This is a petition under S.25, Guardians and Wards Act.

2. The facts are: The Petitioner Samuel Stephan Richard married the respondent Stella Richard on 28-5-1941. Both are Protestant Indian Christians and the Petitioner is an employee in the East Asiatic Company, Madras, drawing a salary of Rs.75/- and dearness allowance of Rs.47-8-0 per month and the respondent is a school mistress in an aided higher elementary school drawing a salary of Rs.50/- per month. Out of this union a daughter Priscilla was borne on 20-4-1942. They were living amicably in Chintadripet, Madras. Then after the father of the petitioner died in June 1951, the petitioner and respondent moved to Pudupet and started living with the mother and sister of the petitioner. On account of the differences between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law, apparently separate cooking seems to have been set up. This did not solve the problem and there seems to have been bitter quarrels between the husband and the wife. Finally, on 31-7-1953 the respondent left her husband taking with her daughter. Then this respondent filed a petition under S.488, Criminal P.C., M. P. No.836 of 1953 in the Court of the C