JUDGMENT :- This is an appeal preferred against the order made by the learned Principal City Civil Judge of Madras in C. M. P. No. 655 of 1955 in O. P. No. 192 of 1955.

2. The facts are :- The petitioner, Srimathi Susheela, is the only daughter of a well-to-do Vanniakula Kshatriya by name Sri P.M. Manthiappa Nayagar, residing at No. 19, Egmore High Road, Madras. The respondent, Sri V.B. Meganatha Nayagar, is the only son of another well-to-do Vanniyakula Kshatriya, Sri Bhoopathi Nayagar residing at Mohana Vilas, No. 5, Konnur High Road, Madras, There is no dispute that a marriage was arranged and took place between the petitioner and the respondent on the forenoon of 7-7-1955.

3. It is the case for the petitioner that on the afternoon of 7-7-1955 the brides party came to know that this respondent has gone through a form of marriage with a Harijan girl by name Chandramathi and that a son was born to this respondent by that Chandramathi. This petitioners case is that on coming to know of this shocking fact fraudulently kept out of her knowledge herself and her relatives came away without the marriage being consummated. On the other hand, the case for this respondent is that th