JUDGMENT :

1. Heard Sri Rakesh Pande, learned Senior Advocate assisted by Ms. Vishakha Pande, learned counsel for the appellant and Sri Ramesh Singh Kushwaha, holding brief of Sri Ashish Kumar Nagvanshi, learned counsel for the respondent.

2. Present appeal has been filed under Section 19 of the Family Court Act arising from judgment and order dated 14.05.2013 passed by Principal Judge, Family Court, Varanasi in Matrimonial Case No. 147 of 2002 (Brahma Dayal Singh Vs. Smt. Meena Singh). By that order, the learned Court below has dismissed the divorce case instituted by the present appellant.

3. Having heard learned counsel for the appellant, learned counsel for the respondent and also perusal of record, we find no good ground to offer any interference in the present proceeding. Divorce had been sought on ground of cruelty. As the basis of that allegation, it was disclosed to the learned Court below that the parties were married on 13.05.1987. A daughter was born to them on 5.12.1994. The parties continued to cohabit intermittently upto 8.5.2001, when the respondent is described to have left for her parental home, never to return. As to the reasons for intermittent cohabitation and par