JUDGMENT:

CIVIL. APPELLATE JURISDICTION: Civil Appeal No. 2754 of 1981.

Appeal by special leave from the judgment and order dated the 6th August, 1979 of the Allahabad High Court in Civil Revision No. 1904 of 1978.

M. K Garg for the Appellant.

K K Mahrotra for the Respondent.

The Judgment of the Court was delivered by SEN, J. The short point involved in this appeal by special leave from a judgment of the Allahabad High Court, is whether the Court of the District Judge, Almora had jurisdiction to entertain the petition for nullity of marriage filed by the respondent under s. 12 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (hereinafter referred to as ’the Act’).

To bring out the point, it is necessary to state a few facts. It appears that the parties originally belonged to village Bagyan, 1005 District Pithoragarh, in the State of Uttar Pradesh. The appellant’s A case is that they fell in love and she became enceinte, as the respondent had access to her during the period of courtship. Her case is that she wanted to marry the respondent, but her father was opposed to the alliance as her elder brother and sister were unmarried. She was therefore brought in an advanced stage of pregnancy to Delhi and th