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CASE NO.:

Appeal (civil) 6534-6536 of 1995

PETITIONER:

ADHYATMA BHATTAR ALWAR

Vs.

RESPONDENT:

ADHYATMA BHATTAR SRI DEVI

DATE OF JUDGMENT: 06/11/2001

BENCH:

D.P. Mohapatra & Doraiswamy Raju

JUDGMENT:

D.P.MOHAPATRA, J.

These appeals, filed by the husband of the

respondent are directed against the judgment of the

Division Bench of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh in

AAO Nos.365 and 718/91, in which the High Court

allowed the appeal filed by the wife and dismissed the

appeal filed by the husband and set aside the judgment

passed by the Subordinate Judge, Narsapur.

The appellant Adhyatma Bhattar Alwar, and the

respondent Adhyatma Bhattar Sri Devi were married on 22nd

August, 1978 in Nalamvari Choultry at Rajahmundry. The

couple stayed together in village Palacole where the parents

of the husband reside. A female child was born to them on

12th December, 1979, whereafter they separated. The wife

and daughter lived with her parents at Rajhmundry, while the

husband continued to stay with his parents at Palacole. The

husband filed a petition for dissolving the marriage under

Section 13 of the Hindu Ma