JUDGMENT (ORAL)

Sushil Kukreja, J.—The appellant, who was the petitioner before the learned Additional District Judge, Sirmaur District at Nahan, H.P. (hereinafter referred to as the “learned Court below”) has maintained the instant appeal under Section 19(3) of the Family Court Act, 1984, against the judgment and decree dated 25.09.2020, passed by the learned Court below, in HM Petition No. 76-N/3 of 2015, with a prayer to set-aside the same by allowing the instant petition.

2. The brief facts of the case are that the appellant/petitioner-Tejinder Singh (hereinafter referred to as “the petitioner”) filed a petition before the learned Court below under Section 13(1) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (for short “the Act”) seeking dissolution of marriage from his wife Smt. Raghubir Kaur (respondent herein) by a decree of divorce. The petitioner averred that he and the respondent solemnized marriage on 31.03.2012 at Resham Majri (Doiwala), District Dehradun, Uttrakhand, according to Hindu rites and customs and out of their wedlock a son, Master Simranjeet, was born. The parties lived together as husband and wife, but after some time the behaviour of the respondent changed and she starte