If you married under the Special Marriage Act, 1954, your divorce is governed entirely by that Act, and this is genuinely reassuring news for interfaith couples — your religion, and any difference in religion, is legally irrelevant to the process. The SMA is a secular code, so a Hindu-Muslim, Hindu-Christian, or any interfaith couple is treated exactly the same as any other.

You have two paths. Mutual consent divorce under Section 28 is available where both spouses agree, subject to living separately for at least one year, followed by two motions with a statutory gap that the courts can and do waive in deserving cases following Amardeep Singh v. Harveen Kaur. Where there is no agreement, a contested divorce lies under Section 27 on grounds such as adultery, cruelty, desertion for two years or more, imprisonment, or unsoundness of mind — essentially the same fault grounds you would recognise from other matrimonial statutes.

Jurisdiction lies with the District Court where the marriage was registered or where either party resides, which for you would be the appropriate court in Agra. The procedure mirrors ordinary matrimonial litigation, so you are not disadvantaged for having chosen a civil marriage. If you want the process mapped out to your facts, the Special Marriage Act practitioners listed for Agra can walk you through both the consent and contested routes.

The reassurance I offer interfaith couples is simple: the very statute that let you marry across faiths also gives you a clean, dignified, and entirely secular route out if the marriage fails. No one can drag your community or religion into the dissolution.