Under what grounds can a divorce be sought in India?

GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE IN INDIA UNDER Section 13 of HMA:

  1. Adultery (voluntary sexual intercourse with any
    person other than his or her spouse)
  2. Cruelty (mental or physical)
  3. Desertion (2 years+)
  4. Conversion to another religion
  5. Unsound mind/incurable mental disorder
  6. Virulent and incurable leprosy
  7. Venereal disease
  8. Renunciation to religious order
  9. Presumed dead (7+ years absence).
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