JUDGMENT

(Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE S. B. PD. SINGH)

Date : 30-06-2025

Heard the parties.

2. The appellant has come up in this appeal against judgment and decree dated 26.03.2021 passed by the learned Principal Judge, Family Court, Bhagalpur in Matrimonial Case No. 207 of 2017, whereby the petition filed by the respondent-wife (Ruchi Sharma) under Section 13 (1)(i-a) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (in short 'the 1955 Act') seeking dissolution of marriage by a decree of divorce, has been allowed and the appellant was directed to make payment of Rs. 15,00,000/-(Fifteen Lakhs) as permanent alimony.

3. Succinctly, the marriage of appellant was solemnized with the respondent on 29^th January, 2016 as per Hindu rites and ceremonies. The marriage was duly consummated; however, no child was born from the wedlock.

4. The pleaded case of respondent-wife in her petition under Section 13 (1)(i-a) of the 1955 Act was that her marriage was performed with the appellant on 29.01.2016 in which her parents spent Rs.10-11 Lakh. After marriage respondent went to the house of appellant on 30.1.2016 but appellant instead of establishing normal sex-relation started committing unnatural sexual atrocities and