Under Section 13(1) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, the number of grounds for divorce which are common…

Section 13(1) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 now lists eight grounds of divorce open to either husband or wife: adultery, cruelty, desertion, conversion, unsoundness of mind, venereal disease, renunciation and presumed death. The Personal Laws (Amendment) Act, 2019 omitted the leprosy ground in s.13(1)(iv), reducing the earlier count of nine to eight.