Adarsh Kumar Goel, J. - The appellant-husband filed a divorce petition alleging that marriage between the parties took place in the year 1982 and a male child was born on 8.10.1983; the wife used to pick up quarrel on some pretext or the other though the husband and his family members were good and kind enough towards her; the husband did not accept any dowry; the wife refused to do the household work and used to taunt the husband that he was not earning sufficient; in July 1983 father of the wife met with an accident and the husband and wife went to see him, but after going there, she refused to return to the matrimonial home; the child was born when the wife was with her parents; the husband visited the nursing home and paid the expenses of delivery, but even when the husband went to meet his child, the wife was angry and made allegations against mother of the husband; with the intervention of the respectable persons, reconciliation was arrived at and the wife and child were brought back to the matrimonial home when the child was three years old; the wife continued to misbehave and she levelled shameful allegations against husband and his parents and finally on 18.4.1995, th