Gujarat High Court Civil Manual (subordinate court practice), 1960
(3) All petitions under section 10, 18, 23, 27, 32 or 34 of the Indian Divorce Act, 1869 (hereinafter called "the Act") shall be accompanied by a certified copy of the certificate of the marriage, if such a certificate is available to the petitioner. (4) (1) In the body of a petition under section 10, 18, 23, 27, 32 or 34 of the Act shall be stated— (i) whether the petitioner professes the Christian religion ; (ii) the place and date of the marriage and the name, status and domicile of the wife before the marriage ; (iii) the status of the husband and his domicile at the time of the marriage and at the time when the petition is presented and his occupation and the place or places of residence of the parties at the time of the institution of the suit ; (iv) the principal permanent addresses where the parties have cohabited including the address where they last resided together in India ; (v) whether there is any living issue of the marriage, and if so the names and dates of birth or ages of such issue ; (vi) whether there have been in the Divorce Division of the High Court of Justice in England or in the Court of Sessions in Scotland or in any Court in India any, and if so what, previous proceedings with reference to the marriage by or on behalf of either of the parties to the marriage, and the result of such proceedings ; (vii) the matrimonial offences charged set out in separate paragraph with the times and places of their alleged commission ; (viii) the claim for damages, if any ; (ix) the grounds on which the petitioner claims that the District Court, in which the petition is presented, has jurisdiction to determine the petition ; and, if the petition is one for a decree of dissolution of marriage or of nullity of marriage, or of judicial separation, it shall further state that there is not any collusion or connivance between the petitioner and the other party to the marriage. (2) The petition shall conclude with a prayer setting out particulars or the relief claimed, including the amount of any claim for damages and any order for custody of children which is sought and shall be signed by the petitioner : Provided that where the petitioner is, by reason of absence or for other good cause unable to sign the petition it may be signed by any person duly authorized by him or her to sign the same or to sue on his or her behalf. file affidavits setting forth the facts upon which he relies. Certified copies of the affidavits shall be served upon the party or the Advocate of the party in whose favour the decree has been pronounced. (c) Applications under Section 34 of the Act shall be entitled "In the suit which the applicant seeks to have stayed." (d) Applications under Section 7 (2) of the Act shall be entitled "In the matter of the insolvency in which the reference to arbitration is sought or claimed." (e) Applications under section 14 of the Act shall be numbered and registered as regular suits. Other applications under the Act shall be numbered and registered as Miscellaneous Applications requiring judicial enquiry.