New Delhi, June 2 -- The Delhi High Court has held that a divorce decree granted by a competent court overseas is sufficient for making changes in Indian passport records, and that passport authorities cannot insist on a separate declaration from an Indian court before updating a person's marital status. "This court is of the considered opinion that the foreign divorce decree passed by the foreign court is liable to be recognised as conclusive within the meaning of Section 13 of the CPC and, consequently, the respondent authorities cannot insist upon a separate declaratory decree from an Indian court as a pre-condition for carrying out consequential changes in the petitioner's passport records," a bench of justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav ...