JUDGMENT :

P. Sam Koshy, J.

Heard Ms. K. Swarna Seshu, learned counsel for the appellant/husband and Mr. Ramesh Babu Peddapalli, learned counsel for the respondent/wife.

2. The present is an appeal under Section 19 of the Family Courts Act, 1984 (for short, ‘the Act’) preferred by the appellant/husband challenging the order dated 20.06.2011 passed by the Judge, Family Court, Secunderabad (for short, the ‘Family Court’) in O.P.No.423 of 2007.

3. Vide the impugned judgment, the Family Court has dismissed a petition filed by the appellant/husband under Section 13(1)(ia) and (iii) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (in short, the ‘Act of 1955’) seeking for divorce on the ground of cruelty and also on the ground that the respondent/wife was suffering from some mental disorder.

4. The brief facts which led to filing of the present appeal are that the appellant/husband and the respondent/wife got married on 02.07.1999 as per the Hindu rites and customs. The appellant/husband and respondent/wife out of their said marriage were blessed with a male child on 20.03.2000. Immediately after birth of the male child it appears that the relationship between the appellant/husband and respondent/ wife got st