Gujarat High Court Civil Manual (subordinate court practice), 1960
With reference to the proviso regarding the service of summons by post on a defendant residing within the limits of the town of Bombay added to rule 22 in Order V of the Code, and the provisions in rule 21-A, Order V regarding other places where there is regular daily postal service attention is invited to section 27 of the General Clauses Act, X of 1897; and it is directed that where, in pursuance of such service by post, when the suit is called on for hearing, the Court shall, in order to satisfy itself whether the service has been duly effected or not, not only see whether the packet containing the summons was sent prepaid by registered post and an acknowledgment asked for, but also whether it was sent properly addressed. For that purpose the Court should require it to be proved by affidavit or otherwise, that the defendant resided at the place to which the packet was addressed to him at or about the time when it would reach him in the