An individual can seek divorce under Section 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, if after solemnisation of marriage the spouse does any of the following acts:-
- Voluntary sexual intercourse with any person other than his or her spouse
- Treats the aggrieved individual with cruelty, this includes mental emotional and physical abuse.
- Has deserted the petitioner for a period of not less than 2 years.
- Has ceased to be a Hindu and adopted another faith.
- Spouse is of unsound mind and or intermittently suffers from mental disorder
- If the spouse suffers from virulent and incurable form of leprosy
- If the spouse suffers from venereal disease in communicable form.
- Has renounced the world by entering any religious order;
- Spouse is missing and it is unknown whether the spouse has been alive for 7 years.
- If the couple have not resumed cohabitation for a period of 1 year since judicial separation or a decree of restitution of conjugal rights.