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Similarly in paragraph 117 under the heading "Visiting a brothel" it is stated:

"It has been said that the fact of a woman going to a brothel with a man furnishes conclusive proof of her adultery. Although the fact of a married man doing so may not raise an irrebuttable presumption against him, still the onus on him, would scarcely be discharged by the denial of himself and of a woman, with whom he was alone."

22. In the Calcutta decision cited above the learned Judges further pointed out that Section 46 of the Indian Divorce Act says that the forms set forth in the schedule to the Act might be used, and form No. 5, which may be used by the wife for judicial separation on the ground of her husband's adultery, sets out for instance in paragraph 4 that on divers occasions in the months of October, November and December her husband committed adultery with a certain woman, who was then living in the service of her husband at their residence. The wife is not required to state that the other woman was married. Similarly, it is pointed out that incestuous adultery is a ground for dissolution under Section 10 of the Act, and the definition of "incestuous adultery" in Section 3(6) is "adultery committed by a husband with a woman with whom, if his wife were dead, he could not lawfully contract marriage by reason of her being within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity, whether natural or legal, or affinity". Thus, the only requisite is that the woman falls within the prohibited degree and it is not necessary that the adultery must be committed with a married woman.