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CASE NO.:

Appeal (civil) 5779 of 2006

PETITIONER:

Sujata Uday Patil

RESPONDENT:

Uday Madhukar Patil

DATE OF JUDGMENT: 13/12/2006

BENCH:

G.P. Mathur & A.K. Mathur

JUDGMENT:

J U D G M E N T

(arising out of SLP (C) Nos. 18502-18503 of 2004)

G.P. Mathur, J.

Leave granted.

2. These appeals, by the special leave, have been preferred against

the judgment and decree dated 9.3.2004 of Bombay High Court

(Aurangabad Bench) by which the second appeals preferred by the

appellant herein were dismissed and the decree of divorce passed by

the learned District Judge, Jalgaon, on 12.11.2002 was affirmed.

3. The marriage of the appellant and the respondent was

performed on 1.3.1994 and a son Charul @ Chaitanya was born out

of the wedlock on 6.2.1995. In the year 1999 the respondent

(husband) filed a petition for a decree of divorce against the appellant

(wife) under Section 13(1)(i-a) and (i-b) of the Hindu Marriage Act,

1955 on the ground that the appellant had treated him with cruelty

and had also deserted him for a continuous period of not less than two

years immediately preceding the presentation of the petit