Under section 27(1) of the Special Marriage Act, 1954, which of the following is NOT a ground on which…

Leprosy is no longer a ground for divorce. The Personal Laws (Amendment) Act, 2019 omitted clause (g) of section 27(1) of the Special Marriage Act, 1954 (the leprosy ground), and removed leprosy as a matrimonial ground from other personal laws as well.

The other three options remain grounds under section 27(1): cruelty since the solemnization of the marriage (clause (d)), venereal disease in a communicable form (clause (f)), and the respondent not having been heard of as alive for seven years or more by those who would naturally have heard of him or her (clause (h)).