1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.1587 OF 2007 Sonia Mayers ..Applicant V/s. The State of Maharashtra & ors. ..Respondents Ms.Vidya Manjrekar i/b.Mr.P.M.Havnur, advocate, for applicant Mr.P.A.Pol, Assistant Public Prosecutor for the State Mr.Tirth Singh, advocate, for respondent No.2 Ms.Pratiksha Mohite i/b.Pratap Patil, advocate, for respondent No.5 Mr.S.D.Nangre, advocate, for respondent No.6 CORAM : B.H.MARLAPALLE, J. DATE : 25TH OCTOBER, 2007 P.C. 1. Pursuant to the order dated 12th July, 2007 passed in this application, the respondent Nos.2, 5 and 6 have filed their reply. Respondent No.2 has filed two separate cases against the present applicant and are pending before the learned Metropolitan Magistrate 12th Court, Bandra, Mumbai and respondent No.6 has filed one case, which is 2 pending before the learned Additional Metropolitan Magistrate 43rd Court at Borivali, Mumbai. The applicant prays for transferring these three cases to one Court either at Bandra or at Borivali. An application for the same relief in respect of these three cases i.e.C.C.No.123/SS/2006 and C.C.No.124/SS/2006 filed by respondent No.2 and presently pending before the learned Metropolitan Magistrate 12th Court, Bandra, Mumbai and C.C.No.1455/SS/2006 filed by respondent No.6 and pending before the learned Additional Metropolitan Magistrate 43rd Court, Borivali, Mumbai, can be filed before the Learned Chief Metropolitan Magistrate. 2. Hence, the application is disposed of with liberty to apply to the Learned Chief Metropolitan Magistrate for clubbing C.C.No.123/SS/2006, C.C.No.124/SS/2006 and C.C.No.1455/SS/2006 and to assign to one single Court of the learned Metropolitan Magistrate either at Bandra or at 3 Borivali. If such an application is filed within a period of four weeks from today, it is directed that the same shall be decided on its own merits as expeditiously as possible and preferrably within eight weeks from its filing. Application is disposed of accordingly. (B.H.MARLAPALLE, J.)