K. Kannan, J. - The appeal is against the dismissal of the petition for divorce on the ground that the wife was guilty of cruelty and desertion. The marriage took place on 18.02.1990 and through the marriage, a male child was born on 21.11.1990. The complaint of the husband was that the respondent was short-tempered and used to fight for every small reason and that she used to humiliate him in the presence of his colleagues. He is an army personnel and had been posted in Kanpur in 1991 and then in Jammu and Kashmir in 1992 and later, he was posted at Suratgarh (Rajasthan). The wife had been left in her parents’ house because he could not shift to the place of his posting due to exigencies of service. Subsequently when he was allotted with accommodation, the wife refused to join him despite repeated requests. She would not even allow the husband to visit his father when he was at Canada and when he was still ailing. His father had later expired in November 1993, but the wife did not visit him even to offer condolence. Later, he was posted at Kupwara (Jammu and Kashmir), but he could not take his wife to that place and, therefore, he had requested the wife to stay with his w