( 1 ) THIS appeal under Section 19 of the Family Courts Act is directed against the judgment and decree passed by the Family Judge, Varanasi in matrimonial suit No. 177 of 1992, whereby the suit for a decree of divorce instituted by the respondent husband Sri Arvind Kumar srivastava against the appellant wife Smt. Sadhana Srivastava has been decreed.

( 2 ) THE case set up by the respondent husband was inter alia that parties to the suit were Hindu and were married according to hindu rites on 2-5-1985. Out of the wedlock two sons were born on 10-7-1987 and 15-12-1988 respectively. From the very beginning of the marriage the behaviour and attitude of the appellant-wife towards the respondent-husband, his parents and other family members has been inhuman and intolerable which culminated into separation of the elder brother of the husband from the family. The wife was always on a look-out to remain at her parents place more than that at the matrimonial home. She had been in the habit of keeping the husband under mental torture either by teasing his parents or spreading frivolous stories in the family which amounted to cruelty. On account of such recklessness behaviou