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HIV
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Leprosy
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Asthma
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Cancer
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Detailed explanation-1: -These Acts contain provisions related to marriage, divorce, and separation of Hindu and Muslim couples. Each of these Acts prescribe leprosy as a ground for seeking divorce or separation from the spouse.
Detailed explanation-2: – The words “leprosy or” in section 2 of the dissolution of Muslim marriage act, 1939. - Clause (c) in subsection (2), section 18 of the Hindu Adoptions and maintenance act, 1956. This act has struck down leprosy and it stands no more a valid reason for divorce in India.
Detailed explanation-3: -(i) Cruelty which is a ground for dissolution of marriage may be defined as wilful and unjustifiable conduct of such character as to cause danger to life, limb or health, bodily or mental, or as to give rise to a reasonable apprehension of such a danger.
Detailed explanation-4: -The husband or wife can obtain a decree of judicial separation; on the ground of adultery or cruelty or desertion without reasonable excuse for two years, or more and such decree will have the effect of divorce under the Indian Divorce Act.