Under the Hindu Marriage Act, condonation applies to the matrimonial offence of:

Section 23(1)(b) expressly requires that adultery has not been connived at or condoned, and that cruelty has not been condoned. Thus adultery and cruelty are the listed offences to which this statutory condonation bar applies. Forgiveness alone is not necessarily condonation: the doctrine also involves restoration to the earlier matrimonial position.

Current law: The civil matrimonial grounds of adultery and cruelty and the condonation rule remain. Joseph Shine 2018 invalidated the separate criminal adultery offence; that did not remove adultery as a matrimonial ground.