Venereal disease to be a ground for divorce under Section 13(1)(v) of Hindu Marriage Act, 1955:

Section 13(1)(v) makes suffering from venereal disease in a communicable form a ground for divorce. The communicable-form requirement is express; non-communicable disease is not covered by that clause merely because it is venereal.

Current law: The 2019 Personal Laws Amendment removed leprosy as a ground under former clause (iv), but did not delete the separate venereal-disease ground in clause (v). Communicable form remains the requirement.