JUDGMENT

Anu Sivaraman, J.—This appeal is preferred by the respondent in M.C.No.831/2010 against the judgment of the III Additional Principal Judge, Family Court, Bengaluru, dated 13.08.2015.

2. It is submitted that the husband of the appellant, who has since passed away, had preferred the Matrimonial Case seeking dissolution of marriage under Section 13(1) (i-a) (i-b) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Act’). In the petition filed by the husband before the Family Court it was contended that the parties were married on 19.04.2002 at GRR Kalyana Mantapa, Narayana Pillai Street, Bengaluru. After the marriage, the parties had lived happily for about ten months, after which it was alleged that the appellant - wife started abusing the husband’s mother and assaulting his mother and sister. A child was born in the marriage. It is stated that on 18.03.2003, the appellant had left matrimonial home without any reason and had refused to rejoin the company of the husband. There were further allegations that criminal cases had been filed by the wife and she along with her father had gone to the office of the husband and abused him in front of his colleagues and ins