A.K. Mathur, C.J.

1. This is a Letters Patent Appeal directed against judgment dated 3.12.1990 passed by learned Single Judge in First Appeal No. 16 of 1990 whereby the learned Judge has reversed the decree of divorce granted in favour of the appellant/husband by the learned Trial Court.

2. Brief facts giving rise to this appeal are that respondent wife is employed as Assistant Professor in Government Girls Degree College at Jabalpur and the appellant husband is an M.B.B.S. doctor practising as an Eye-Specialist at Jabalpur. The marriage took place on 6.12.1976 when the respondent wife was in service in Govt. School at Balaghat. A petition for divorce was filed by the husband on allegations that respondent wife did not at all discharge any marital obligations and has not returned to the husband since September, 1977. It was stated that after the marriage she lived with her husband at his house for a very brief period. In September, 1977, she created a scene by jumping in the mid-night. It was alleged that since the day the appellant husband married the respondent wife, she had been threatening the appellant that she would commit suicide. Therefore, the petition for divorce wa