Judgment

Mr. Sumeet Goel, J.

The appellant-wife has preferred the present appeal against the judgment and decree dated 22.01.2008 passed by learned Additional District Judge, Kurukshetra whereby petition filed by respondent-husband under Section 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (hereinafter to be referred as ‘the Act’) seeking dissolution of marriage was allowed and marriage between the parties was dissolved.

2. Succinctly facts first, as stated in the pleadings and evidence by rival parties.

2.1 The husband filed the divorce petition stating that marriage between the parties was solemnized on 26.06.2003, as per Hindu rites and ceremonies, at Naraingarh in District Ambala, Haryana. The parties lived together as husband and wife and cohabited with each other at village Sainsa, Tehsil Pehowa, District Kurukshetra. It was further stated by the husband that no child was born out of the wedlock and the wife left the matrimonial home on 31.05.2004. Later on, the husband came to know that wife had performed the second marriage with one Sameer resident of Jaipur on 10.07.2004. The husband also relied upon an affidavit dated 22.06.2005 sworn by the wife acknowledging the factum of her marriag