JUDGMENT

Per: Hon'ble R.C. Khulbe, J.

This appeal has been preferred by the appellant-husband challenging the impugned judgment and decree dated 28.05.2013 rendered by the learned Judge, Family Court, Haridwar in Case No.86 of 2008 (Sanjeeva Kumar v. Smt. Sushma Maurya), whereby the said Court has dismissed the petition moved by the petitioner-husband under Section 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (hereinafter to be referred as ‘the Act').

2. The facts of the case are that the parties to the matrimony were married on 28.10.2001 as per Hindu rituals. Both are Government Servants. Appellant is at present posted on the post of Fire Officer at Kashipur, District Udham Singh Nagar and the respondent is posted as Assistant in L.I.C., Branch Office, Cannaught Place, Chakrata, Dehradun. Only after few days of marriage the disputed erupted between the parties on the issue of employment of respondent-wife. The respondent was not cooking food and would deprive her husband from his conjugal rights under influence of her parents. She also started to pressurize the appellant to live separately, i.e. separate from the joint family residence. Despite the defiant attitude shown by the respondent,