law: Indian Divorce Act, 1869 
  14. Power to court to pronounce decree for dissolving
  
  marriage 
  In case the court is satisfied on the evidence that the case of
  
  the petitioner has been proved, and does not find that the petitioner has been
  
  in any manner accessory to, or conniving at, the going through of the said form
  
  of marriage, or the adultery of the other party to the marriage, or has
  
  condoned the adultery complained of,
  or that the petition is presented or prosecuted in collusion
  
  with either of the respondents,
  the court shall pronounce a decree declaring such marriage to be
  
  dissolved in the manner and subject to all the provisions and limitation in
  
  sections 16 and 17 made and declared:
  PROVIDED  that the Court shall not be bound to pronounce
  
  such decree if it finds that the petitioner has, during the marriage, been
  
  guilty of adultery, or if the petitioner has, in the opinion of the court, been
  
  guilty of unreasonable delay in presenting or prosecuting such petition,
  or of cruelty towards the other party to the marriage,
  or of having deserted or willfully separated himself or herself
  
  from the other party before the adultery complained of, and without reasonable
  
  excuse,
  or of such willful neglect or misconduct of or towards the other
  
  party as has conduced to the adultery.
   Condonation  - No adultery shall be deemed to have been
  
  condoned within the meaning of this Act unless where conjugal cohabitation has
  
  been resumed or continued.