TA No.40 of 2011 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH TA No.40 of 2011 Date of decision : 04.05.2011 Smt. Navdeep Kaur ...Applicant Versus Shri Jagdeep Singh ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JITENDRA CHAUHAN Present: Mr. Surinder Sharma, Advocate for the applicant. Mr. IPS Kohli, Advocate, for the respondent. JITENDRA CHAUHAN, J. (Oral) 1. The present application has been preferred by the applicant- wife under Section 24 of the Code of Civil Procedure, praying for the transfer of the petition titled as ‘Jagdeep Singh Vs. Navdeep Kaur’, filed by the respondent under Section 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (for short `the Act'), from the Court of learned Additional District Judge, Jalandhar, to the Court of competent jurisdiction at Gurdaspur. 2. I have heard the learned counsel for the parties. 3. The respondent earlier filed a petition under Section 9 of the Act. On the application filed by the applicant herein, this Court vide order dated 12.05.2009, transferred the same from Jalandhar to TA No.40 of 2011 2 Batala, after considering the threat perception to the applicant who is posted at Kapurthala. Thereafter, the respondent withdrew the petition under Section 9 of the Act and filed the present petition under Section 13 of the Act. The threat perception still subsists. 4. In view of the above fact situation and the observations made by Hon’ble the Apex Court in Sumita Vs. Kumar Sanjay and others, AIR 2002 SC 396, the instant transfer application is allowed and the petition under Section 13 of the Act titled as ‘Jagdeep Singh Vs. Navdeep Kaur’ is withdrawn from the Court of learned Additional District Judge, Jalandhar, and is transferred to the Court of competent jurisdiction at Gurdaspur. The entire record pertaining to the petition under Section 13 of the Act shall be sent by the trial Court at Jalandhar to the learned District Judge, Gurdaspur, within three weeks, who will either himself dispose it of or entrust it to any other Court of competent jurisdiction. 5. The parties shall appear before the Court of learned District Judge, Gurdaspur, on 04.05.2011. 04.05.2011 (JITENDRA CHAUHAN) atulsethi JUDGE Note : Whether to be referred to Reporter ? Yes / No