JUDGMENT

L.K. MISHRA, J. — This appeal is directed against the judgment dated 21.02.2004 passed by learned Judge, Family Court, Rourkela in Civil Proceeding No.188 of 2000 and the decree sealed and signed on 08.03.2004 by which he dismissed the suit filed by the present appellant.

2. The case of the appellant in the Court below was that she and respondent Santosh Kumar Singh were co-workers and were known to each other. As their intimacy developed, they fell in love and ultimately the respondent proposed to marry the appellant. The appellant agreed to such proposal and on 21.03.1999 marriage between them was solemnized at Dumerta Kali temple at Bondamunda with observance of all rituals and ceremo¬nies as befitting a Hindu Marriage in presence of G. Naidu and the father of the appellant. Soon thereafter both the parties consummated their marriage in the quarter of the respondent at Bondamunda but on the next day the appellant was sent to her parent’s house by the respondent who promised to take her back after some days after obtaining the consent of his parents since they were not aware of such marriage. However, the respondent never turned up to take her back. The father of the app