M.M.Kumar, J.

1. This is an appeal directed against judgment dated 11.4.2001, passed by District Judge, Jind, dismissing the petition filed under Section 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1956 (hereinafter referred to as the Act) of the appellant-wife (hereinafter refer to as the appellant).

2. The appellant was married to respondent-husband (hereinafter referred to as the respondent) according to Hindu rites and ceremonies in 1994. After marriage, both of them lived in their matrimonial home at village Anchra Kalan (Jattan Wala), Tehsil Safidon, District Jind. A male child Manjeet @ Mandeep was born out of this wedlock.

3. The wife filed a petition under Section 13 of the Act seeking dissolution of her marriage on the principal ground of cruelty by the husband and alleging that his elder brother S/Sh. Shamsher Singh and Ran Singh had attempted to outrage her modesty on various occasions. The detail of those attempts has been given in the judgment dated 11.4.2001. Thereafter, efforts were made by the assembly of Panchayat but the attempts to outrage her modesty continued. She has also alleged that a demand of Rs. 20,000/-and two buffaloes as dowry, has also been made. Disbeliev