In Bangladesh dissolution of marriage or divorce is not permitted under the Hindu law. However there is a scope for Separation under the Hindu Married Women’s Right to Separate Residence and Maintenance Act, 1946. Section 2 of the said that stated the grounds for claiming separate residence and maintenance. As per this section a a Hindu married woman shall be entitled to separate residence and maintenance from her husband on one or more of the following grounds, namely,-
1) if he is suffering from any loathsome disease not contracted from her;
2) if he is guilty of such cruelty towards her as renders it unsafe or undesirable for her to live with him;
3) if he is guilty of desertion, that is to say, of abandoning her without her consent or against her wish;
4) if he marries again;
5) if he ceases to be a Hindu by conversion to another religion;
6) if he keeps a concubine in the house or habitually resides with a concubine;
7) for any other justifiable cause .
A Hindu married woman shall not be entitled to separate residence and maintenance from her husband if she is unchaste or ceases to be a Hindu by change to another religion or fails without sufficient cause to comply with a decree of a competent Court for the restitution of conjugal rights.