( 1 ) IN this appeal under section 19 of the Family Courts Act, 1983, the non-applicant/appellant has called in question the defensibility of the judgment dated 21st day of September 2004 passed by the learned Judge, Family Court, jabalpur in Civil Suit No. 85-A of 2001 (new No. 179-Aof 2002 ).

( 2 ) SHORN of unnecessary details, the facts which are essential to be stated are that the applicant/respondent wife filed an application under Section 12 (1) (c) of the Hindu marriage Act (for short the Act) for annulment of her marriage performed with the non-applicant/appellant/husband and to pass a decree of nullity. It was pleaded in the application that she was a student of post Graduation course and the appellant husband is a Vaidya and also engaged in astrology. The mother of the respondent wife was a patient of high blood pressure and her father a diabetic for many a year. Her parents used to have the treatment from the appellant husband who was practicing both ayurvedic and Homoeopathic medicines. The respondent wife used to accompany her parents to the Dispensary of the appellant husband. As situation would have it, she used to go to the Dispensary of the appellant husband alone

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