IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Criminal Misc. Application No. 9 of 2008 1. Beer Singh Negi S/o Late Sri Inder Singh 2. Smt. Kiri Devi @ Ludri Devi W/o Sri Beer Singh Negi 3. Balbir Singh S/o Late Sri Inder Singh All R/o Rajeev Nager, Ganga Vihar Police Station Dalanwala, Dehradun 4. Surendra Singh Sajwan S/o Sri Dashrath Singh Sajwan R/o 54 Awas Vikas Colony, Roorkee District Haridwar 5. Smt. Vimla W/o Sri Ghanshyam R/o Mangal Basti, Rajeev Nagar District Dehradun … Applicants Vs 1. State of Uttarakhand 2. Rajesh Singh Chauhan (Advocate) S/o Late Sri Prem Singh Chauhan R/o Danda Ajabpur, Dehradun District Dehradun … Respondents Sri Lokendra Dobhal, learned counsel for the petitioners Hon’ble B.C. Kandpal, J. This application under Section 407 of Cr.P.C. has been filed by the applicants who are facing the trial in a Criminal Case No. 2046 of 2003, Rajesh Singh Chauhan Vs Beer Singh Negi & others, under Sections 147, 323, 504, 506 of I.P.C. pending in the court of 1st Special Judicial Magistrate, Dehradun for transferring the case to any other competent jurisdiction of any other district. 2. Heard Sri Lokendra Dobhal, learned counsel for the applicants and perused the record. 3. It has been mentioned in accompanying affidavit of the application that respondent No. 2 – Ragesh Singh Chauhan is an advocate, practicing in District Dehradun and is also pressurizing the lawyers engaged by the applicants to contest their case. It has also been averred in the affidavit that on account of the pressure yielded by the respondent No. 2, the lawyers already engaged by the applicants have withdrawn themselves from case and refused to appear in the case on behalf of the applicants. 4. The ground taken by the applicants in the affidavit, filed along with the applicant that there is as reasonable apprehension in their mind that in the aforesaid circumstances, the applicants would not be able to get fair justice at Dehradun. 5. It is pertinent to mention here that the applicants filed a transfer application previously for transferring the Civil Suit No. 354 of 1999, Beer Singh Negi Vs Prem Singh Chauhan & others pending in the court of Additional Civil Judge (J.D.), Dehradun to any other district of competent jurisdiction at another district and that application was allowed and this Court vide order dated 21.07.2005 transferred that civil case from the court of Additional Civil Judge (J.D.), Dehradun to the court of Civil Judge (J.D.), Haridwar. 6. Keeping in view the aforesaid circumstances, I think, that this application is also to be allowed. 7. Accordingly, the transfer application is allowed. The Criminal Case No. 2046 of 2003, Rajesh Singh Chauhan Vs Beer Singh Negi & others, under Section 147, 323, 504, 506 of I.P.C. pending in the court of 1st Special Judicial Magistrate, Dehradun is transferred to the court of Judicial Magistrate, Haridwar. (B.C. Kandpal, J.) 25.03.2008 ASWAL