JUDGMENT

Heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the record.

A factual preface which self introduces itself in this appeal is that as against hardly three years of company in matrimony, the spouses i.e. the appellant and the respondent are in acrimony of litigation for the last more than seventeen years in running none relenting to end it in a cordiality of their consent.

2. The denial of divorce by the court below has brought the appellant-husband in the present appeal which has been pending final adjudication for the last more than seven years in this Court and before that it has taken more than nine years for the court below to wind up the matrimonial litigation between the two. This is a high time for the courts dealing the matrimonial litigation, be it on trial side or appellate side, to awaken and act upon a realization that when the time is essence of life then a matrimonial litigation is not supposed to run prime life time of the spouses in litigation. Bond in matrimony shall not lead to long bondage in litigation.

3. Both the appellant and the respondent are the educated persons who entered marital relationship on 26.11.2001 solemnized under the Hindu customs and