Crl. Misc. No. M-18751 of 2008 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl. Misc. No.M-18751 of 2008 Smt. Satnam Kaur ....Petitioner VERSUS Charanjit Singh ....Respondent Crl. Misc. No.M-18752 of 2008 Smt. Satnam Kaur ....Petitioner VERSUS Charanjit Singh ....Respondent Crl. Misc. No.M-19219 of 2008 Smt. Satnam Kaur ....Petitioner VERSUS Charanjit Singh ....Respondent Decided on : 03-07-2009 CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MAHESH GROVER Present:- Ms. Savita Saxena, Advocate for the petitioner None for the respondent MAHESH GROVER, J This order will dispose of three Crl. Misc. Nos. M-18751 of 2008, 18752 of 2008 and 19219 of 2008 These are petitions under Section 407 Cr.P.C praying for Crl. Misc. No. M-18751 of 2008 2 transfer of following cases:- (a) Complaint no. 65 dated 5.12.2001 u/sections 323/341/504/506/34 IPC titled as 'Charanjit Singh versus Om Parkash and others' pending in the Court of SDJM, Rajpura, District Patiala (b) Case FIR No. 158 dated 4.6.2003 u/sections 341/323/506 IPC P.S. City Rajpura, District Patiala clubbed with file of T.A. No. 81 dated 27.5.2008 titled as 'ASI Sarup Singh versus State of Punjab' pending in the Court of Sh. Inderjit Singh, Sessions Judge, Patiala (c ) Kalendra No. 18 dated 9.5.2006 titled as 'State versus Charanjit Singh' pending in the Court of SDJM, Rajpura to Court of competent jurisdiction at Ludhiana. The disputes between the parties have arisen from a marital discord. It is the contended case of the petitioner that divorce proceedings initiated by the respondent are pending at Ludhiana and the petitioner being a resident of Khanna is attending to these proceedings. She has prayed that proceedings in aforesaid three cases be also transferred to Ludhiana. No one is present on behalf of the respondent despite the fact that the case has been called out twice. He has not even filed reply to controvert the averments made in the petition. After hearing learned counsel for the parties and considering the circumstances in totality and keeping in view the fact that divorce proceedings initiated by the respondent himself are pending at Ludhiana and also keeping in view the observations of Hon'ble Apex Court in case titled as 'Sumita Singh versus Kumar Sanjay and another' AIR 2002 SC 396, I Crl. Misc. No. M-18751 of 2008 3 am of the considered opinion that the present petitions deserves to succeed. Accordingly, the proceedings in all the three cases referred to above are transferred to a Court of competent jurisdiction at Ludhiana. The Court at Ludhiana shall issue notice to the parties for appearance after receipt of the cases on their transfer July 03, 2009 (Mahesh Grover) rekha Judge