IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA: Cr.MMO. No.117 of 2011. Date of Decision :18.7.2011. _______________________________________________ Vichitra Singh. ……Petitioner. Versus: Smt. Vishmita and another …Respondents. Coram: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Dev Darshan Sud, Judge. Whether approved for reporting1? For the petitioner. :Mr. Ashwani Pathak, Advocate. For Respondent. None. Dev Darshan Sud, J (Oral). This petition has been preferred against the order of the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Mandi affirming the order of the learned trial Magistrate allowing the petition under Section 125 Cr.P.C. preferred by the respondent-Smt.Vishmta, who is the wife of the petitioner and Diksha minor daughter. The petition was filed on the allegation that both the respondents herein were the legally wedded wife and daughter respectively of the petitioner. The marriage between the petitioner and respondent No.1 was solemnized in 1992. The case set out by the respondents was that they were neglected to be maintained by the petitioner herein. As found by the learned trial Court and affirmed by the learned appellate Court, the Whether reporters of the Local papers are allowed to see the judgment? .yes. 2 plea of the petitioner herein that the wife had deserted his company without any reasonable cause was untenable. The evidence on the record is that she has been deserted by the petitioner and left in the house of his brother after 2/3 months of the marriage. No serious efforts were made to bring her back for a period of more than eleven years. She was deserted at the very initial stage of the marriage. The learned court holds that thirteen years of separation without any justifiable cause, reasons of which were entirely attributable to the petitioner constitutes cruelty. These very points have been urged under Section 482 Cr.P.C. I do not find any perversity in the reasoning of the learned trial Court as affirmed by the learned appellate Court. This petition is, therefore, dismissed. (Dev Darshan Sud), Judge. July 18,2011.(R)