Maintenance

 Maintenance can only be waived off for reasons being The girl has commited adultery or she herselft has initiated divorce proceedings.

Depriving your patener of s*xual needs could only lead the court to pass an order for Restitution of Cinjugal rights

If u want a divorce you can apply for Restitution of conjugal rights which means restoration of s*xual relations.This wil not in anyways help to force the wife to cohabit with the husband.

Divorce needs a very strong ground which i m sorry i dunt seen any...I still dont understand the reason you want divorce for?

I suggest You convince your wife for divorce by mutual consent which is subject to her mutually accepting to seperate.Both can then initiate proceedings for divorce this wil not take much time...Thanks

 By saying Initiate divorce proceeding i mean if the wife is not interested to continue marriage on reasonable grounds....Only then can she not be entitled to maintenance

Thanks Ms. Meenakshi for your prompt reply.

As I see and have deeply thought, th issue is profound intellectual incompatibility between us (even after agreeing that this was the basis for this relationship before the alliance started).

Am an academically minded guy working in advance research. 

Your marriage is not consummated, it is a very good ground for divorce. 

 Exactly my point Prove to the court there were no s*xual relations taken place in past whatever time u have mentioned.

Though this may sound crude, how can I prove that (except that she's not impregnated by me)?

Experts advised very well.

. Such a union should be broken with maximum fairness and minimum bitterness, distress and humiliation.

 so Buck up and try to prove the court that there is no s*xual relation taken place.  The burden of provinf obviously lies on you if there are reasonable cause given by your wife as to why is she not consumating the relation(Disgusting living standards etc). Once An order in passed by the court the court cannot compel your wife to consumate but leads you to your want....ultimately after a year from the date of decree of rest of conjugal rights u can file a divorce petition saying The marriage is not consumated which the court will accept and you will succeed.

Why dont you convince your wife for mutual consent...She seems least interested in continuing considering what u have written above?

 The drawback of the ground is that it that the court by passing the decree only requests you to cohabit but cant compel...and the merit here is that after a year the same thing becomes a good ground for divorce ...

Deeply appreciate your in-depth reasoning and the simpler solution (of mutual consent). Many thanks. May you get all that u deserve. 

please explan about 13B mutual section.

I'm very sorry but either of my Learned friends had given true / right legal advice..it seems to me that that Meenakshi could not read the problem of the situation stated by Mr. Fed Up .... He has made it very clear in his problem that only due to him the marriage could not be consumated... it means only the wife could file for divorce on this ground..

So far as the maintenance are concerned..it clear law and very well settled by the Supreme Court and High courts that even if divorce proceeding is initiated by the wife...she can claims not only maintenance but litigation charges also..

again it is wrong that - Depriving your patener of s*xual needs could only lead the court to pass an order for Restitution of Cinjugal rights- as this is no ground for passin g a decree under section 9 of Hindu Marriage Act i.e restitution of conjugal right...

So far as the incompatibility of mind are concerned it does not fail under any of the faulty grounds of divorce under section 13 of Hindu Marriage Act

The best way is to get a decree of divorce under section 13 B of Hindu Marriage Act i.e. Mutual consent decree.