P.B. Majmudar, J.— This appeal is directed against the judgment and order dated 10th August, 2004, passed by the Principal Judge, Family Court, Mumbai, in Petition No. A116/1998 by which the learned Judge of the Family Court dismissed the petition filed by the appellant for getting a decree of nullity of her marriage with the respondent, maintenance as well as for return of her articles and things as more particularly set out in Ex. A to the said petition.

2. The appellant was the original petitioner before the Family Court. She preferred the said petition with a prayer that the marriage soleminised on 26th April, 1987, between the appellant and respondent may be treated as null and void and the respondent may be directed to pay maintenance at the rate of

Rs. 25,000 per month.

3. It is the case of the appellant before the Family Court that her marriage with the respondent took place on 26th April, 1987 according to Hindu Vedic Rites at Shree Ganga Nagar, Rajasthan. The said marriage is not registered. There are no issues out of the said wedlock. According to the appellan, she came to Mumbai and started staying with the respondent in her matrimonial home at Goregaon, Mumbai