( 1 ) THIS second appeal is directed against concurrent judgments and decrees passed by the courts below allowing the petition of the respondent for divorce against the appellant under Section 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act. The decree for divorce was claimed by the husband (the respondent in this appeal) on the ground that the appellant persistently and repeatedly treated the husband with cruelty. Both the courts below have, on a careful and exhaustive analysis of the evidence on record, accepted the plea of the husband holding that the appellant had, by her repeated acts and omissions, inflicted on the husband considerable mental torture making his life impossible. The trial court allowed the petition and directed dissolution of the marriage between the appellant and the respondent by its decree dated 25-9-78. The appellate court dismissed the appeal of the appellant vide the judgment and decree dated 26-3-81. The second appeal was thereupon filed on 20-7-1981. Nearly seven years elapsed before the second appeal could be taken up for hearing.

( 2 ) I may mention at the outset that before giving decision in the appeal I fixed 31-3-88 to enable the parties to