Charles Davis Mar 15, 2019:

@TTilch Thank you. To me that confirms the suggestion I have been outlining in the discussion. "Dharwad is the district headquarters of Dharwad district in the state of Karnataka, India" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharwad ). So "station" does indeed mean district headquarters here: the administrative seat of the marriage registration authorities, in this case (see my most recent reference to the "Marriage Registration Station" in Pune).

I don't think "police station" is correct, no. As Yvonne pointed out, the police are not responsible for registering marriages in India.

Yvonne Gallagher Mar 15, 2019:

Except people DON'T get married or have marriages registered in a police station. See my ref: Actual certification of the marriage is done by the office of the Additional Divisional Magistrate (ADM) in whose jurisdiction the husband or wife resides... So the word "station" on the certificate could be replaced by "Place" I think which would work well in all English forms! (And you are translating into German? So you don't need anything that is potentially ambiguous)

TTilch (asker) Mar 15, 2019:

Actually, it is the name of a place (not an officer); I was confused at first as it also appears after "Marriage Officer", then Dharwad. Thus I assume that the suggested "police station" is correct.

TTilch (asker) Mar 15, 2019:

This appears at the bottom of a "Certificate of Registration of Hindu Marriage" document. There it says:
Station: Dharwad
Marriage Number:
Date:
CD Number:
Besides that, there is the name/stamp of the Registrar of Marriage.

Yvonne Gallagher Mar 14, 2019:

@ Charles. Indeed. But I don't see the point of discussing further in the absence of context from Asker.

Charles Davis Mar 14, 2019:

@Yvonne Christine's idea is one of the possibilities that are bound to occur to you when you see "station". It would be an odd word to use for the rank or position of an official, but then Indian English has many oddities from a European perspective. However, without evidence of this usage it's an unsupported hunch; that's not a criticism, it's just that there's no basis to agree or disagree, in my view.

I saw several forms like Taña's while googling; it's obviously relevant, but I can't see that it does anything to clarify the meaning of "Station".

Then again, if courts have stations, so might registry offices. In fact here's an example:

"Marriage Registration
Station
[Tel] 08788083326
Make payment using JD Pay
Station Pune - 411001"
https://t.justdial.com/Pune/Marriage-Registration-Station/02...

Yvonne Gallagher Mar 14, 2019:

@ Charles
Yes it is another possibility though less likely imo than Christine's, especially given Taña 's second ref here.
But Asker not responding so impossible to be sure

Charles Davis Mar 14, 2019:

By the way, I have not posted this as an answer because there's too much uncertainty and too little information.

Charles Davis Mar 14, 2019:

Another possibility Just for the record, let me mention another meaning of "station" in India that might be relevant. It can mean the seat of a district court, and district courts are involved in marriage registration (at least of "court marriages", where either the husband or wife is not a Hindu, Buddhist, Jain or Sikh).

Under the Bombay Civil Courts Act 1869, which remarkably enough is still in force, Part III, section 6:
"The District Judge shall ordinarily hold the District Court at the sadr station in his district, but may, with the previous sanction of the High Court, hold it elsewhere within the district."
https://www.legalcrystal.com/act/51118/bombay-civil-courts-a...

The "sadr [chief] station" was the seat of the British authorities under the Raj.

"Station" is still the word for the seat of district courts, as in the Kerala Civil Courts Act 1957, section 16:

"In the event of the death of the District Judge or [...] of his absence from the station in which his court is held [...]"
https://latestlaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Kerala-Civ...

So it's close to Juan's "district", but it's the seat of the court within the district.

Taña Dalglish Mar 13, 2019:

TTilch https://www.indiafilings.com/learn/procedure-for-marriage-re...
Is your query similar to the sample here (see "Station" at bottom of form).

philgoddard Mar 13, 2019:

You could always email the department that issued the certificate, and ask them...

Charles Davis Mar 13, 2019:

@TTilch Are you quite sure that the words written after "Station" are the name of an official? That doesn't fit any of the suggestions made so far, or any other sense of "Station" I can imagine: surely "Station" can't be a person. If Christine is right, it's a position, post or rank, and if Andrea or Juan is right it's a place.

Charles Davis Mar 13, 2019:

@Yvonne You have a point there.

Yvonne Gallagher Mar 13, 2019:

@ Asker more context please
You say this is a marriage certificate but "station" as in the ref given below means merely the police station where the bride/groom has to get their required residency of 30 days certified. But it's not to do with registration of the marriage itself that I can see?
In which case, Christine's answer would make sense. What did your own research give you?