JUDGMENT

Challenging the judgment and decree of divorce granted against her, the respondent in M.C.No.745/2003 on the file of I Additional Principal Judge, Family Court, Bangalore City, has preferred this appeal.

2. The appellant was the respondent and the respondent was the petitioner in M.C.No.745/2003 before the trial Court. For the purpose of convenience, the parties are referred to henceforth according to their ranks before the trial Court.

3. The marriage of the petitioner and the respondent was solemnized on 04.05.1983 in Mangaluru. The parties are Hindus and are governed by the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (for short, 'the Act'). In their conjugal life, the couple are blessed with daughter by name Varsha on 27.05.1984. The petitioner was working as a Bank Manager. The respondent pursued her education in M.Phil., in Economics and completed the same in the year 1989. On Commonwealth scholarship, she went to UK for her studies in Ph.D in Economics. Later she got employment and the petitioner and the child joined the respondent in Yorkshire and lived for about six months. Then he returned to India, the child continued in the custody of the respondent. Later, the child came back to In