JUDGMENT :

(Prayer: Civil Miscellaneous Second Appeal filed under Section 100 CPC read with Section 28 of the Hindu Marriage Act, against the decree and judgment made in CMA No.67/2003 passed by the Principal District Judge, Chengalpattu dated 25.11.2005 reversing the decree and judgment made in HMOP No.22 of 1997 on the file of the Principal Sub Court, Chengalpattu, dated 28.08.2002 and prays that the same may be set aside, reversed and varied.)

1. The respondent/wife is the appellant in this Civil Miscellaneous Second Appeal. Aggrieved over the order of the Lower Appellate Court, in reversing the judgment of the Trial Court and granting decree in favour of the petitioner/husband, the appellant/wife preferred the above Civil Miscellaneous Second Appeal.

2. For the sake of convenience, the parties are called as per their rankings in the petition filed for decree of nullity of marriage.

3. The petitioner/husband filed a petition under Section 12(1)(c) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, for a decree of nullity of marriage solemnized between the parties on 31.05.1996. It is relevant to state that the petitioner/husband had averred that the marriage was solemnized between the parties on 31.0