THE HON’BLE SMT. JUSTICE TIRUMALA DEVI EADA CITY CIVIL COURT APPEAL No.182 OF 2019

JUDGMENT:

This is an appeal filed by the appellant, being aggrieved by the judgment and decree, dated 31.08.2018 passed in O.S.No.368 of 2012 by the learned V Senior Civil Judge, City Civil Court, Hyderabad (for short “the trial Court”).

2. The appellant herein is the plaintiff and the respondents are the defendants before the trial Court. The parties herein are referred to as they were arrayed in the suit before the trial Court for the sake of convenience and clarity.

3. The facts of the case before the trial Court are that defendant No.1 got married to one Shashikala on 24.04.2002 at Hyderabad and that he filed an FCOP No.806 of 2007 on the file of the Family Court, Hyderabad against Shashikala and the plaintiff herein is seeking dissolution of marriage by attributing illegal intimacy between said Shashikala and the plaintiff herein. Based on the evidence on record, the Family Court has passed a judgment and decree dated 31.12.2010 disbelieving the case of defendant No.1 about adultery but has granted the decree of divorce since Shashikala did not wish to join defendant No.1 due to the allegations of