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Thehas cited his habitual drinking as the reason for seeking aA 38-year-old’s dream of becoming a son of the soil has cost him his marriage. Not only did techie-turned-farmer lose his wife, he ended up paying her Rs 6 lakh in a divorce settlement, which he claimed had been initiated by his wife as she did not want him to leave his job as a software engineer and take up farming.The 30-year-old wife, however, had a different story: She said she wanted out of the marriage due to her husband’s drinking habit.On Thursday, the two settled their divorce after the husband handed over a demand draft for Rs 6 lakh in court.The couple married in 2007 and have a six-year-old son. The husband who hails from Chitradurga, landed a job in Dubai after completing his MCA. The wife, from Bengaluru, has done her MBA.Soon after the wedding, however, the husband returned from Dubai and decided to settle down in Chitradurga and become a farmer. He claimed that he wanted to lead a life away from the hustle and bustle of Bengaluru, but his wife did not want to join him in his agricultural venture and said she preferred to live in the city. This divergence in views led her to apply for divorce.After a family court in Bengaluru rejected the petition in November 2013, the wife approached the High Court with an appeal.In the HiC, her advocate put a different spin on the reason for her seeking a divorce. He claimed the reason was not that her husband wanted to be a farmer, but that he was a habitual drinker and never took care of her.The court, however, was not inclined to immediately dissolve their marriage and on January 16, ordered the couple to go for mediation. That didn’t work out either and in the following hearing they agreed to file a joint memo to get the court to dissolve their marriage.“Is your mind not open [for reconciliation],” the court asked the wife, to which she said, “No, it is closed.”Her husband agreed to pay her Rs 6 lakh as alimony and the same was handed to her in the form of a demand draft. When asked what she would do with it, she told the court that she would put it towards her son’s future.