What are the grounds when Hindu wife shall not be entitled to separate residence and maintenance from…

Section 18(3) of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 denies a Hindu wife the right to separate residence and maintenance from her husband if she is unchaste or ceases to be a Hindu by conversion to another religion; either ground is enough. Desertion, cruelty, the husband ceasing to be a Hindu by conversion, another living wife and a concubine kept in the same house are grounds on which section 18(2) entitles her to live separately and still claim maintenance. Her lack of separate income does not take away her right to maintenance.