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5. Shri Gopal Subramanium, learned senior counsel for the appellant, has submitted that the marriage of the appellant with Smt. Aruna Gupta was an arranged marriage, which took place on the basis of an advertisement in the newspaper. After marriage it was revealed that Smt. Aruna Gupta was suffering from serious mental disorder of paranoid schizophrenia for almost two decades. She had been treated in U.S.A. for her illness as at the relevant time her father Shri Ram Gopal Agarwala was working there. After the marriage when the appellant discovered that she was suffering from mental ailment, she was treated in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. In this connection learned counsel has drawn the attention of the court to the medical reports prepared in several hospitals where Smt. Aruna Gupta had been admitted and had been given treatment for the disease paranoid schizophrenia with which she has been suffering. Learned counsel has further submitted that life and health of baby girl Rose Mala would not be safe, if she is allowed to remain in the custody of the mother. He further submitted that the mother of the appellant will be living with him and she will be able to look after the child.

8. The medical reports of Smt. Aruna Gupta regarding her treatment in some hospitals in U.S.A. are mostly of the year 1984 and the doctor of Holy Cross Hospital, U.S.A. recorded his assessment as under: -

"Borderline personality disorder with no obvious medical problems on examination or in the laboratory.
PLAN:
No further medical intervention is necessary."

The medical reports of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, which are of the year 2000, do not show that she has been suffering from any such mental ailment, which may be termed as serious. In fact, according to the appellant himself Smt. Aruna Gupta is a case of paranoid schizophrenia and not any kind of serious mental ailment.