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(25) EX. P-l and P-2 taken together, as they must be taken together, have been written on same bunch of papers by the mother and the son, also establish that the mother and the son are on the one side, and the father is on the other side, that the mother and the son have collaborated with each other in inflicting agony upon the respondent petitioner husband.

(26) The respondent husband has also deposed about the acts of cruelty committed by the son at the behest of mother. The respondent husband has deposed that "the respondent had asked to me that I should make the gift of the house to the son. I refused to make gift of the house and then the son caught hold of me from my testicles, and gave me beating". But for the collaborative efforts of the son and mother in writing Ex. P-l and P-2, it would have been difficult to say that cruelty by the son has a bearing upon this case. In law cruelty has to be of the other part of the.marital unit. Normally the cruelty by any of the children of the parties to the marriage would be irrelevant. But when one of the children so identifies himself with one of the parties, and that party collaborates with the children to perpetrate cruelty, the cruel conduct of the child of the marriage may become a factor to be acted upon.

(27) In the facts and circumstances of this case, I am inclined to believe what was deposed to by the respondent, regarding the cruel act of the son in grabbing the testicles, and giving a beating to the father In my view, it would certainly be cruelty on the father, when the mother and the son are acting in concert with each other, grab the testicles of the father on his refusal to do what the mother and the son want It is an act of extreme physical violence and cruelty to any man to grab and squeeze him by bis. testicles, as such an act causes extreme physical agony and pain.