Court Marriage by Area in Delhi

Why the office depends on where you live

Marriage jurisdiction in Delhi is territorial, and the rules are written in terms of districts - which is why the 2026 reorganisation matters to you even though nothing on the ground moved.

For registration of a marriage that has already happened, the Delhi Revenue Department's published rule is residence-based: the applicants apply to the office in whose territorial jurisdiction either of them resides. Where the marriage was solemnised in Delhi but the applicants were not residing in Delhi, the application goes to the office in whose jurisdiction the marriage was solemnised.

For solemnisation under the Special Marriage Act, section 5 sends the notice to the Marriage Officer of the district in which at least one of you has resided for not less than thirty days immediately preceding the notice. So on that route the district is fixed by thirty days of residence, not by preference.

And there is a universal fallback. Clause 5 of the Delhi (Compulsory Registration of Marriage) Order, 2014 gives the Marriage Officer of the district of solemnisation jurisdiction, and adds that the Sub-Divisional Magistrate (Head Quarter), the Additional District Magistrate and the District Magistrate of Delhi have concurrent jurisdiction over the entire National Capital Territory for any marriage solemnised anywhere in Delhi. Whatever confusion exists about a sub-division during the transition, there is always an authority with jurisdiction.

Every page below covers the same ground for its own area: which district it now sits in, which office handles the file, the documents, the witnesses, the fees and the realistic timeline - plus one legal subject in depth that matters particularly there.

What changed on 1 January 2026

The Delhi government notified a reorganisation of the revenue districts on 25 December 2025, effective 1 January 2026. Eleven districts became thirteen and thirty-three sub-divisions became thirty-nine. Three districts were created - Old Delhi, Central North and Outer North - and Shahdara ceased to be a district.

Nothing on the ground moved. Every locality in Delhi is exactly where it was. What changed is the administrative heading above it.

Here is the complete current map. Find your locality's sub-division, read across to the district, and use that district.

If your sub-division is not on the new list

Seven names that everyone used last year are not among the thirty-nine created on 1 January 2026: Chanakyapuri, Vasant Vihar, Civil Lines, Kotwali, Alipur, Saraswati Vihar and Kanjhawala.

The places have not gone anywhere. Chanakyapuri is still Chanakyapuri and the lanes of Kotwali are exactly where they were. What has gone is the sub-division heading of that name.

We kept a page for each of those localities, because people still live there and still search for them, and each page explains where a file from that area goes now. You will find them in the directory above.

Your existing certificate is unaffected. A marriage certificate records that a marriage was registered on a date by an officer who held that authority then, and no later reorganisation reaches back and unmakes it. If anybody tells you a certificate must be re-issued or a file "transferred" for a fee because the district changed, that is not a legal position - see the Shahdara page, which deals with this at length.

Four other sub-divisions survived but changed district: Patel Nagar moved from West to Central, Sadar Bazar from Central to Old Delhi, Narela from North to Outer North, and Model Town from North to Central North.

What is on every area page

Each page is written for its own locality rather than templated, and each carries one legal subject in depth so that reading two of them is worth more than reading one twice.

Every page covers: which district the sub-division now sits in and what changed; which office handles your file and the published counter hours; the documents the Delhi Revenue Department actually lists, including the three accepted proofs of date of birth; the witness requirement for each route; the published fees; and the realistic timeline.

Beyond that, each page owns a subject. A few examples: Mehrauli covers age proof and what to do when there is no birth certificate; Bawana covers the notice period and the three-month lapse under section 14; Yamuna Vihar covers prohibited degrees and sapinda relationship; Jangpura covers when you may lawfully remarry after a divorce; Patparganj covers what to do when an office refuses or delays; Kirari covers streedhan and the list of wedding presents the law requires; and Shakur Basti carries the complete 2026 district map as a reference table.

So the page for your own area is the right starting point, and the pages either side of it are worth reading for the subject rather than the locality.

If you cannot find your locality

Delhi has thousands of colony names and thirty-nine sub-divisions, so your colony will not have its own page - it sits inside one of the thirty-nine.

Try the search box with the nearest well-known area name, or open the district you believe you are in and scan its sub-divisions. Most colony names map obviously once you see the list.

If you are still not sure, it is not a problem worth agonising over. Send us your locality on WhatsApp and we will tell you which sub-division and district you fall in - it takes a minute and costs nothing. And remember clause 5: the SDM (Head Quarter), the Additional District Magistrate and the District Magistrate hold concurrent jurisdiction across the whole of Delhi, so a marriage solemnised anywhere in the NCT always has an office competent to register it.

If you live outside Delhi in the NCR, we have separate pages for Noida, Gurgaon, Ghaziabad and Faridabad - and note that a marriage solemnised inside Delhi is covered by the Delhi Order whatever your residence.