In Muslim law, divorce by li’an is a right available to the:

Li’an concerns the wife’s remedy when her husband falsely accuses her of adultery. Zafar Husain recognises her right to obtain a judicial dissolution on that ground under the applicable law and proof. The spouses’ participation in an imprecation procedure is different from the wife’s divorce remedy asked for here.

Current law: For persons within Uttarakhand Code operation, judicial dissolution is governed by its divorce grounds and section 29. Its cruelty ground and the facts must be applied instead of assuming an independent religious mechanism alone dissolves a covered marriage.