( 1 ) THIS is a husbands second appeal in a suit for dissolution of his marriage with the respondent, by a decree of divorce and in the alternative for judicial separation.

( 2 ) THE appellant is captain now a major in the army. His case was that the parties were married on 26-4-1959 when he was about 17 years of age and the respondent was only 14. They lived and cohabited together at their village home where they last resided together upto 10-10-1969. The respondent wife is then described as short-tempered who sometimes becomes violent and who is said to use abusive language. She was alleged to be shortstatured and hard of hearing. It was then said that one day the respondent wife hurled a Belen and used to beat his nephews and abused the petitioners mother as also his brothers wife. This is followed by the complaint that the respondent wife falsely accused the husband of "complicity with his Bhabhi who is about 18 years older than him" and has 8 issues, the eldest of them being 27 years old and whom petitioner "respects like his mother. " The husband had to suffer indignity and humiliation before his family and neighbours. His life became Very miserable so that "