Grounds for Divorce under The Hindu Marriage Act, Grounds of Divorce as per The Hindu Marriage Act Adultery The concept of Adultery may not be considered as an offence. Adultery means the consensual and voluntary intercourse between a married person with another person, married or unmarried, of the opposite sex. Cruelty The concept of cruelty includes mental as well as physical cruelty. The physical cruelty means when one spouse beats or causes any bodily injury to the other spouse. But the concept of mental cruelty was added as the spouse can also be mentally tortured by the other spouse. Mental Cruelty is lack of kindness which adversely affects the health of the person. Desertion Desertion means the permanent abandonment of one spouse by the other spouse without any reasonable justification and without his consent. In General, the rejection of the obligations of marriage Conversion If one of the spouses converts his religion to any other re...