JUDGMENTBY: SHANKAR J W

the applicant wife had a whirlwind courtship in early 1985 with H (the respondent husband). Its result was the conception of the infant I, who is the subject matter of the present application. Pregnancy was medically confirmed in May 1985. After an unsuccessful attempt to abort the child, the parties married on July 6, 1986. Thereafter they cohabited in the house of the husbands parents. After a few months, and in circumstances to be set out in detail hereafter, the marriage came under great strain. The wife returned to her mothers house. Attempts at reconciliation failed. There was a bitter quarrel on January 22, 1986, in the husbands parents house in which the parties hereto, their parents and other relatives were all participants. It must have seemed to all concerned that the breaking point had been reached. So the assistance of a lawyers clerk was obtained to put up a separation deed. It provided inter alia that the wife was not to receive any maintenance and that sole custody of the child to be born should be given to the husband. And it provided that on the expiration of two years from the date of the marriage, the parties should make a joint applic