The following have been held to amount to “reasonable excuse’:

- Husband’s insistence that wife must live with his parents or persistent

nagging of wife by husband’s parents (Sbanti v Bctlbir AIR 1971 Del 294).

- Husband’s keeping a concubine or addiction to drink/ drugs accompanied

by violent temper or husband’s overbearing, domineering and dictatorial

conduct [Tim/m/s v Timmns (1953) 2 All ER 187].

- Husband’s extravagance in living.

- Husband forces wife to take drink before guests or to eat meat (if she is

vegetarian) (Chandra v Saroj AIR 1975 Raj 88).

- Husband’s false accusations of adultery or immorality

These are the resonable excuse under sec 9 of Hindu Marriage act , Restitution of conjugal rights