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Under the Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936, one of the grounds for divorce set Out in Section 32 is that the defendant has, since the marriage, infected the plaintiff with venereal disease.

Under the Indian Divorce Act, 1869, the grounds for dissolution of a marriage have been set out in Section 10 which provides that a wife may petition for dissolution if her husband was guilty of incestuous adultery, bigamy with adultery or of rape, sodomy or bestiality, Under Section 27 of the Special Marriage Act, the party to a marriage has been given the right to obtain divorce if the other party to whom he or she was married was suffering front venereal disease in a communicable form.