CAV JUDGMENT

(PER: HON'BLE MR JUSTICE SREENIVAS HARISH KUMAR) This appeal is by the petitioner in M.C.3492/2011 on the file of IV Additional Principal Judge, Family Court, Bengaluru, who initiated action for dissolution of his marriage with respondent/wife, by invoking section 10(x) of Indian Divorce Act. Since the Family Court by its judgment dated 11.6.2019 dismissed the petition, he has filed this appeal.

2. The appellant and the respondent are Christians, their marriage was solemnized on 04.01.2002 at Church of South India (CSI), Karungal, Tamil Nadu. In the wedlock, they begot two sons. The appellant was doing business in Computers at Chennai at the time when he married the respondent, and in the year 2004, he and the respondent shifted their residence to Bengaluru as he secured an employment in Bengaluru.

3. The appellant, in his petition, has narrated several instances to seek divorce on the ground of cruelty. The main allegations are that in the course of time, the respondent started harassing him, and sometime in the year of 2005, she poured hot water on him consequent to which he sustained burn injuries and could not walk properly. She refused to prepare food for him and the