1 Petition under S.10, 18 and 19 of the Indian Divorce Act . Petitioner is the wife and the respondent is the husband. The petitioner is a member of the Church of South India and the respondent is a member of Syrian Jacobite Christian Community.

2 At the time of marriage, the petitioner was a practising Gynaecologist after having passed her M. B. B. S. and D. G. O. and at present she is employed at S. U. T. Hospital, Trivandrum. The respondent is an Engineer employed in Traco Cables Ltd., a Public Sector undertaking of the Government of Kerala. Their marriage was solemnized on 29th November 1993 at Syrian Jacobite Puthen Church, Kundara as per the religious custom prevailing among the members of the Syrian Jacobite Church. It was an arranged marriage. The proposal for the marriage appeared in the matrimonial column of the Malayala Manorama, on behalf of the respondent. This was followed by negotiation among the members of the petitioner's and respondent's families and the marriage was later settled.

3 At the time of negotiation, it was represented to the petitioner that the respondent had already secured a highly paid job in Saudi Arabia that he would take the petitioner with him t