She says that at the time of her marriage her father gave a dowry of Rs. 25,000.00 and several presents and gifts, including clothes worth about Rs. 10,000.00, but her mother in law was not satisfied with the amount of dowry given by her father ; that her parents in law would not ordinarily permit her to visit her parents ' house, that whenever such permission was asked for they used to refuse a number of times, but would allow her to go only once in a way ; that she, was abused for trivial things, such as when handkerchief '& were missing ; that the treatment of her mother in law and sisters in law from the beginning was cruel and when they made complaints to the appellant, he used to abuse her; that in Ceylon also they ill treated her; that between 1949 and 1954 she was allowed to go to her parents ' house only on two occasions, that is, once on the wedding of one of her sisters and the second time on the wedding of her cousin and during those occasions .