How many grounds of divorce are provided for a Muslim woman under Section 2 of the Dissolution of…

Section 2 has nine principal numbered grounds, clauses (i)–(ix): disappearance, failure to maintain, imprisonment, failure of marital obligations, impotence, specified illness, repudiation of a qualifying childhood marriage, cruelty, and another ground recognized by Muslim law. The subdivisions of cruelty in clause (viii) are not counted as extra principal grounds.

Current law: The Personal Laws Amendment Act 2019 removed leprosy from section 2(vi). That clause still covers the specified insanity and venereal-disease grounds; the nine-clause structure remains, so the numerical answer is unchanged.