1. The parties were married at Delhi on 24th February, 1976, At that time the wife was employed as Assistant Scientist, Department of Botany, College of Basic Sciences, Haryana Agricultural University, Hissar and the husband was doing business at Delhi, according to the wife; whereas according to the husband he was working at Kanpur and on insistence of his wife, he started doing business in Delhi. from 1978 onwards. Out of the wed-lock on 3rd Jan., 1979 a female child was born. On 16th September, 1982, the wife presented a petition for dissolution of marriage in District Court at Hissar, primarily on the ground of cruelty. The husband contested the petition and in his written statement took a preliminary objection that Hissar Court had no jurisdiction to try the petition as neither the marriage, was solemnized at Hissar nor she resided there at the time of presentation of petition nor the parties last resided together at Hissar. In the divorce petition, the wife had pleaded in paras 11 and 15 as follows:

"That the last meeting between the parties was on date 5-9-1982 at Hissar and on that very date the petitioner was saved from the respondent by the intervention of the pet