Amar Dutt, J. - Raj Kishan has filed this appeal to challenge the judgment and decree passed by the Additional District Judge, Kurukshetra on 3.5.1995 dismissing his petition under Section 13 fo the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (in short "the 1955 Act") for the grant of decree for divorce against the respondent.

2. Raj Kishan got married with Sudesh on 8.3.1980 at Panipat. The parties lived together as husband and wife at Kirmach i.e. the village of the petitioner at Thanesar upto April, 1980. When the respondent was taken away by her father on the pretext that her mother was ill, on 9.8.1983 Raj Kishan had moved an application under Section 13 of the 1955 Act, which he got dismissed in default on 8.10.1983. Another application moved by him under the same Section was withdrawn by him on 8.1.1986. the respondent, on the other hand, had got registered an F.I.R. under Sections 405, 406 and 498-A I.P.C. on 8.1.1986 against the appellant. In this F.I.R., the parents of the appellant remained in judicial custody for few days before they were enlarged on bail by the Sessions Judge, Karnal. The appellant himself had been granted anticipatory bail by this Court. Thereafter, he filed ano