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11. The respondent affirmed that after February, 2004, the appellant was unenthusiastic to sexual intercourse with the respondent. If the wife is subjected to insults and behaved cruelly, it would make the married life became very unhappy and miserable. Denial of Medical treatment to the wife at the time of delivery and non- payment of the expenses would amount to "cruelty". In the cross-examination of PW1 nothing was brought out to discredit her evidence, but she admitted that after the marriage the husband had sexual intercourse with PW1 only for limited days. The appellant (RW1) contended that there was no ill-treatment both physically and mentally towards PW1 and there was no demand for dowry. RW1 admitted that he has normal intercourse with her and in that relationship both children born to them, but this part of his evidence is sleek and slender. PW2 and PW3 deposed about  money transaction at the time of marriage. The wife alleges willful neglect of the husband, when she was admitted in the Medical Trust Hospital for her two deliveries. The husband's failure to provide medical aid and care when she was admitted in the hospital is a serious one. This willful neglect or avoidance is a deliberate departure from the normal marital life which will come within the ambit of "constructive desertion".