short period of three months and thereafter, the respondent-wife deserted the matrimonial company of the appellant-husband on 22.11.2012. Even during the short period of stay, the respondent-wife's relationship with the appellant-husband was not cordial, but confrontational on every count. The respondentwife was in the habit of physically assaulting the appellanthusband and to prove the same, Ex.P-8, Photographs were marked by the appellant-husband in O.P.No.4382 of 2012. During the first week of September 2012, when the appellant was driving the car to Kilpauk to see the new house that was under construction by his father, the respondent-wife, in a depressed mood, hit the appellant-husband for no reason. Since at that time, the car was nearing the Church where their marriage took place, the appellant-husband drove the car inside the campus and stopped it there. When the appellant and respondent went inside the Church where there was no congregation in the Church, the respondentwife followed the appellant-husband and shouted, calling him as 'bastard' and 'not fit to be a husband'. She also threatened the appellant that 'she would teach him a lesson'. It is contended by the learned counsel for the appellant-husband that these words were repeatedly uttered by the respondent-wife during her stay in the matrimonial home, thereby she subjected the appellant to mental cruelty. Further, on 08.09.2012, when the appellant-husband and the respondent-wife went to Bangalore for a holiday trip, she pulled the hair of the appellant-husband and took off her sacred "thali" chain and threw it on the ground. She also challenged the appellant-husband to assault her so that she can prefer a complaint to the Police. On 23.09.2012, during a visit to the friend's house of the appellant-husband, the respondent-wife threw a glass, which grazed past the appellanthusband and broke into pieces and scattered in the kitchen. On 27.10.2012, the respondent-wife also threatened that she would commit suicide with a knife and when the appellant went to prevent it, she bit his left fore arm. Even during their trip to Thailand from 11.11.2012 to 15.11.2012, the respondent-wife subjected the appellant-husband to various forms of cruelty. Ultimately, on 22.11.2012, the respondent-wife left to Kerala under the guise of attending a family wedding and had taken most of her belongings, including jewels, which is evident from Ex.P11 being the list of articles taken by the respondent-wife. After the respondent-wife left Kerala under the guise of attending a family wedding, she refused to come back to the matrimonial home, inspite of the demands made by the appellanthusband and his parents. However, in the counter statement filed before the Family Court, the respondent had stated that she was sent to Kerala for getting money and her share in the property of her parents. But, in the cross-examination, she admitted that she went to Kerala to attend a family wedding. Further, after she left the matrimonial home, she threatened the appellant-husband that she would lodge a Police complaint.
