JUDGMENT

Ashok Kumar Verma, J. - The appellant-wife has come up in appeal before this Court seeking setting aside of judgment and decree dated 18.10.2018 passed by the District Judge (Family Court), Moga (hereinafter referred to as 'the Family Court'), whereby petition filed by the respondent-husband under Section 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (for short 'the HMA) to dissolve the marriage between the parties on the grounds of desertion and mental cruelty, has been allowed.

2. Briefly stated, respondent-husband filed a petition under Section 13 of the HMA before the Family Court pleading therein that marriage between the parties was solemnized on 29.06.2011 in a 'Dharamshala' at Zira, District Ferozepur, by way of Hindu rituals in a very simple manner. After marriage, appellant and the respondent lived together and cohabited with each other as husband and wife at Dharamkot, District Moga. Soon after marriage, respondent-husband came to know that appellant-wife was a hot headed lady and she disclosed that her marriage has been solemnized with the respondent against her wishes by her parents forcibly otherwise she did not want to marry him as she had love and relations with somebo