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10. We fail to understand firstly as to why Issue No. 3 was ever framed. This is neither a husband's petition for divorce on the ground of desertion where wife pleads constructive desertion nor a husband's petition for restitution of conjugal rights where wife pleads justification for withdrawing from husband's society nor this is a wife's petition for divorce on the ground of cruelty, and secondly we cannot understand the reasoning of the trial court as far as the finding in respect of the issues are concerned. The respondent in his petition has made vague and general allegations in respect of period prior to his shifting to Bombay in Sept. 1986. The emphasis in the petition and in respondent's deposition is only on the incident of attempted suicide by the appellant and what followed thereafter. Unfortunately the trial Court has not appreciated the fact that what prompted the appellant to attempt to take her life was the obtaining of her signature by the respondent on the divorce petition which was to be filed for obtaining divorce by mutual consent. That very day the appellant tried to take her life. The appellant had no hand in the filing of the criminal complaint against the respondent inasmuch as she was lying critically ill in the hospital as a result of her having consumed poison. The respondent has not adduced any evidence to show under what circumstances he lost his job. The respondent has also not adduced any evidence to show how he received humiliation or as to how people stopped keeping contact with him. It appears that it was appellant's written statement and evidence which was scrutinized for coming to the conclusion that appellant was guilty of cruelty.