1. Complainant (Respondent No. 2) is husband of Respondent No. 3. Petitioner is brother - in - law (wife's husband) of Respondent No. 2. In the month of April, 1997, Respondent Nos. 2 and 3 met each other in a train while travelling from Delhi to Hyderabad. They became friends. They continued to meet thereafter. With the passage of time love blossomed between them. Ultimately, they got married on 28th November, 1997 at Arya Samaj Mandir, Rathkhana, Bikaner according to Hindu rites and ceremonies. It appears that after the marriage their relations became estranged. Respondent No. 2, inter alia, alleged that Respondent No. 3 had concealed her real age, her marital status and the fact that she was having two children out of her previous wedlock with one Wasif Khalil. She had also concealed that at the time of marriage with Wasif Khalil she had embraced Islam. Respondent No. 3 filed a petition for dissolution of marriage by a decree of nullity under S.5 and S.12 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 in the month of November, 2000.

2. On 16th September, 2000, that is, few months prior to filing of the petition for dissolution of marriage, Respondent No. 2 had filed a complaint under S.200 C