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The medical opinion is that there are several types of schizophrenia, of which 'paranoid schizophrenia' is one of the conditions. This type of schizophrenia is explained at page 1485 of the above cited book as under:--

PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA The illness usually begins late in life, between the age of 25 and 35 years. The patient may justify his incapacity to cope with stress by laying the blame on others. He may feel that others are against him and are out to persecute him. He may attribute his failures to the jealousy or "spite" of superiors, associates or colleagues. He may even ascribe the failure of his marriage to an imagined infidelity on the part of the wife. Such delusions are frequently centered round some near relative or friend. The delusions may be logical or bizzare.

33, In support of his case the husband examined his mother, Smt. Shanta Bai Sharma (P.W. 2), Dr. S. K. Sharma, his brother (P.W. 3), who both supported the above version of the husband. In proof of her mental disorder at the time of the marriage and subsequently, the husband Examined the Psychiatrist, Dr. P. N. Shukla, The above named Psychiatrist stated that he has special qualifications on the subject being M.D. in Psythiatry. The Psychiatrist stated that the wife prior to her marriage had come to him for consultation in December, 1984 and at that time her name was maintained by him in the patients' Register. The relevant entry in the Patients' Register maintained by the Psychiatrist in the Clinic is marked as Ex. A/1. The Psychiatrist testified that during his first visit he found the wife as a patient in a excited state of mind. The Psychiatrist stated that he diagnosed her illness as Schizophrenia of paranoid type. The Psychiatrist stated that he treated her continuously for six or seven months. He confirmed to have paid visit to examine her again after her marriage to the husband's house. The Dr. Shukla had found the wife in his second visit to the husband's house in a frenzied condition. She was reported to be violent, crying and trying to assault. She was terribly in anger and excited and unable to make differenciation between elders and youngers in the family.

40. So far as the behaviour of the wife after marriage and during her second visit in husband's house is concerned, I do not find any justification to reject the testimony of the husband as a falsehood. There is nothing on record to suggest that the husband would cook up a false story against his wife with some ulterior purpose. The wife has not cast any such aspersion or allegations against the husband that the wanted to get rid of her for some extraneous reasons. It has, therefore, to be inferred that the husband really saw something very unusual and abnormal about her behaviour. The incidents of misbehaviour which I have catalogued above, from the testimony of the husband, confirm the medical opinion of Dr. Shukla examined in the case and opinion stated in Standard Medical Books on the subject of Schizophrenia. In the Division Bench of Calcutta High Court the text book of Psychiatry by Gillespies (Tenth Edition) at page 279 has been referred in para 20 of its judgment. A "Storage odd and inappropriate behaviour, pattent sitting or standing motionless and highly resistive to all attention, subject to feelings of inexplicable fears or doubts" are some of the symptoms of the disorder. The Division Bench also records that the Schizophrenia is not completely curable, being hereditary and recurring. As I have quoted from the text book of medicine by Vakil "delusions, elusiveness, loss of contact with reality, emotional incongruity and behavioural disturbances" are indications of paranoid type of schizophrenia. These delusions are sometimes centred round ghosts, relatives or friends. In the instant case, the wife admitted that on the honey-moon night she was terribly nervous and felt completely shattered although she says that it was because of a very shocking disclosure and suggestion of the husband that if he also kept another woman as was done by his father, she should suffer the agony mutely. The husband in his deposition has denied to have made any such shocking disclosure on the very first night. The question whether the version of the wife is to be believed or of the husband. I cannot lose sight of the fact that admittedly the two families are Brahmins from Chhatisgarh and there is evidence on record to show that they were inter-related and known to each other since long. It is most unlikely that the wife and her relations did not know that the father of the husband did not live with the husband and had taken a Punjabi woman as a keep and living with her since long. It is also on record that the marriage proposals and acceptance was by the mother and grandmother of the husband. The husband's father never negotiated for marriage and was also not present at the time of the marriage. The wife, therefore, cannot be believed that she came to know of the father of the husband having taken a Punjabi woman as a keep only through alleged disclosure by him on the honeymoon night. It has, therefore, to be inferred that this fact was known to her from before the marriage. The question is now about second suggestion alleged to have been made by the husband to the wife that if similar incident happened with him of a re-marriage, the wife would have to suffer it mutely. It is hard to believe that a husband in the first night would have made any such attempt to frighten his life partner at the time when they were to have first sexual intercourse. It appears to me that the version of the wife is untruthful and she is trying to explain her strange conduct and behaviour on the first honey-moon night. It appears to me that the husband must have received a great shock due to the behaviour of the wife which was most abnormal. She was so cold, frigid and nervous that she could not co-operate in performing the sexual act. Her behaviour, therefore, can only be due to the kind of mental illness she was suffering from and commented and explained by the Psychiatrist. It appears that she was under some unknown fright or frenzy and that made her a totally passive partner in the sexual act on the first night.