law: Indian Christian Marriage Act,1872 
  48. Petition when Registrar doubts
  
  authority of person forbidding
  Whenever a Marriage
  
  Registrar, acting under the provisions of section 44, is not satisfied that the
  
  person forbidding the issue of the certificate is authorized by law so to do,
  
  the said Marriage Registrar shall apply by petition, where his district is
  
  within any of the towns of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay, to a Judge of the High
  
  Court, or if such district be not within any of the said towns, then to the
  
  District Judge.
  Procedure on petition
  The said petition
  
  shall state all the circumstance of the case, and pray for the order and
  
  direction of the Court concerning the same, and the said Judge of the High
  
  Court or District Judge, as the case may be, shall examine into the allegations
  
  of the petition and the circumstances of the case, and if, upon such
  
  examination, it appears that the person forbidding the issue of such
  
  certificate is not authorized by law so to do, such Judge of the High Court or
  
  District Judge, as the case may be, shall declare that the person forbidding
  
  the issue of such certificate is not authorized as aforesaid, and thereupon
  
  such certificate shall be issued, and the like proceedings may be had in
  
  relation to such marriage as if the issue had not been forbidden.