PATNA, India, Oct. 24 -- Patna High Court issued the following judgment on Sept. 25:

Heard the parties.

2. The appellant has come up in this appeal against judgment and decree dated 29.06.2019 passed by the learned Principal Judge, Family Court, Bhagalpur in Matrimonial Case No. 12 of 2008, whereby the petition filed by the appellant under Sections 12 and 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (in short 'the 1955 Act') seeking dissolution of marriage by a decree of divorce, has been dismissed.

3. The pleaded case of the appellant in his petition filed under Sections 12 and 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 is that marriage of the appellant with the respondent was solemnized on 29.06.2006 according to the Hindu rights and rituals and after m...