ORDER

Justice K.Haripal, Judicial Member

Applicant is a former Stores Superintendent in the office of the 2^nd respondent, who retired from service by availing voluntary retirement on 30.06.2005. He had married one Aleyamma on 17.01.1993. In that relationship one girl child, Merlin was born on 07.10.1994. But, later, differences of opinion developed in the marital relationship and the applicant moved the Family Court, Kottayam at Ettumanoor with O.P.No.88/1999 seeking divorce on the grounds of cruelty and desertion. By Annexure-A3 order dated 07.05.2005, divorce was granted and the request for restoration of conjugal rights claimed by the wife was rejected. Thus, that relationship severed through Court proceedings. It has been pointed out that when the said Aleyamma had moved the Hon'ble High Court with Matrimonial Appeal No.358/2005, a consensus was reached whereunder the Matrimonial Appeal was disposed of in terms of a compromise reached between the parties. It is shown that the applicant had executed a gift deed in favour of his former wife and the payments made till then to the wife were taken as the full and final settlement of all the claims of the former wife and the daughter M