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9. That leads us to consider the question of impotency of the husband who has been found by the court below to be so. Though so found the finding is attacked in appeal by the respondent to support the decision of the court below dismissing the petition. According to him the case of the petitioner, even if believed, would not be sufficient to prove a case of impotency of the husband. The mere fact that the husband has been unresponsive to the overtures of the wife may not be sufficient to call the husband impotent. According to the husband it must be further shown that he would be unresponsive to all and in all circumstances and frigidity as against the female sex as a whole alone can be said to constitute impotency of a nature to justify a wife seeking a decree of nullity. For this, according to the respondent, there is no proof in the case.