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"Any wife may present a petition to the District Court or to 'the High Court, praying that her marriage may be dissolved on the ground that since the solemnisation thereof, her husband has exchanged his profession of Christianity for the profession of some other religion, & gone through a form of marriage with another woman: or has been guilty of incestuous adultery, or of bigamy with adultery, or of marriage with another woman with adultery, or of rape, sodomy or bestiality, or of adultery coupled with such cruelty as without adultery would have entitled her to a divorce 'a mensa et toro', or of adultery coupled with, desertion, without reasonable excuse, for two years or upwards.

Every such petition shall state, as distinctly as the nature of the case permits, the facts on which the claim to have such marriage dissolved is founded."

This petition was not filed on the ground of incestuous adultery by the respondent, or bigamy combined with adultery, or marriage with another woman with adultery, or rape, sodomy and bestiality, but only on the ground of adultery coupled with some cruelty, as, without adultery, would have entitled her to a divorce 'a mensa et toro' or of adultery coupled with desertion, without reasonable excuse, for two years or upwards. So, adultery is the main thing to be proved. Whether it alone need to be proved will be considered later.