JUDGMENT :- These two first appeals arise from a common judgment dismissing the appellant-husbands petition for dissolution of his marriage with the respondent-wife by a decree of divorce under S.13 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 and also dismissing the appellants application made in those proceedings for the custody of the only child of the marriage, Gitika Gulati, a daughter.

2. The parties were married on 22nd Jan., 1967. They lived together for a few years at Allahabad and the child Gitika was born on 1st Oct., 1970. According to the husbands case, as set out in his petition dated 17th Feb., 1976 which was originally for judicial separation, the wife was more inclined to live at her fathers place than at the husbands and even wanted that he should also live at her fathers place. She was very very quarrelsome and always quarrelled with the members of the husbands family. The quarrels became so frequent that the husband had to hire a house in Mohalla Kalyani Devi, but there too the husband had to change his residence a number of times because of the quarrels which the respondent-wife picked up with the neighbours and other tenants of the house. Ultimately, in spite of the best ef

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