JUDGMENT :

SAVITRI RATHO, J.

1. “Marriages are made in heaven, or so it is said. But we are more often than not made to wonder what happens to them by the time they descend down to earth. Though there is legal machinery in place to deal with such cases, these are perhaps the toughest for the courts to deal with. Such is the case presently before us.”

Thus observed the Supreme Court in the case of Hitesh Bhatnagar vs. Deepa Bhatngar, (2011) 5 SCC 234. We are faced with a similar situation.

2. This appeal has been filed by the appellant challenging the judgment dated 31.01.2020 passed by the learned Judge, Family Court, Jajpur in Civil Proceeding No. 168 of 2011, dismissing the petition filed by him under Section 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act for dissolution of his marriage with the respondent which had been solemnised on 24.01.2007.

The C.P. was originally filed in the Court of learned Family Judge, Cuttack as C.P. No. 663 of 2010 and thereafter transferred to Jajpur and renumbered as C.P. No. 168 of 2011.

CASE OF THE APPELLANT – HUSBAND

3. The marriage between the appellant and the respondent was solemnized on 24.01.2007 as per Hindu customs and rites after which they lived together as hus