JUDGMENT

SHOBA ANNAMMA EAPEN, J.

The appeal is filed by the wife challenging the decree of divorce granted by the Family Court on the petition filed by the husband.

2. For sake of convenience, the parties are referred to as, “husband” and “wife”.

3. The marriage was solemnized on 03.09.2004 and a girl child was born in the wedlock. According to the husband, after the marriage, the wife started harassing him mentally, raising suspicions of his involvement in illicit relationships. Due to the same, the husband had filed a petition for divorce, but that was dismissed. Thereafter, the wife filed a petition under Section 125 Cr.P.C. for maintenance, which was allowed; and accordingly, maintenance is being paid. It is alleged that he was not permitted to see his daughter and the wife instructed him not to contact the child. Subsequently driven by suspicion, the wife visited her husband’s workplace and began spreading defamatory rumors about him among the employees and kept on alleging scandals about the husband. That led to the husband filing the present petition for divorce.

4. The wife denied all the allegations raised by the husband. She alleged that the husband intended to abandon their