1. Balbir Kaur appellant was married to the respondent in March 1971. She claims that on the same day her doli was taken to the house of the respondent when about an hour thereafter she felt some pain in the abdomen. She was accompanied by her maternal uncle Hardial Singh A.W. 4, her brother Jagser Singh and Chhoti Nain when it was suggested to the respondent and his parents that she should be provided with some medical treatment. Their request was not acceded to. On the other hand, she was asked to leave the house which she did and reached her father s house in the evening. She put in a petition on 24-2-1977 for divorce under S.13(1)(ib) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (hereinafter called the Act) on the ground that the respondent had deserted her for a continuous period of no less than two years immediately preceding the presentation of the petition to divorce. These allegations were denied in the written statement filed by the respondent who averred therein that he was and continues to be willing to keep the petitioner (now appellant) in his house as his wife. He also set up the plea that the petitioner herself with-drew from his company without any reasonable and probab