TA No.326 of 2011 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH TA No.326 of 2011 Date of decision :29.07.2011 Gurpreet Kaur ...Petitioner Versus Bikramjeet Singh ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JITENDRA CHAUHAN Present: Ms. Maninder Kaur, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr.Naresh Gopal Sharma, 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 ‘Bikramjit Singh Vs. Gurpreet Kaur’, filed by the respondent under Section 25 of the Guardians and Wards Act, (for short `the Act') from the Court of learned Add. Civil Judge (Sr. Division), Ludhiana to the Court of competent jurisdiction at Taran Taran. 2. The applicant-wife is residing at Taran Taran. The respondent-husband filed petition under Section 25 of the Act, which is TA No.326 of 2011 2 pending before the Additional Civil Judge Senior Division (Guardian Judge) Ludhiana. It would certainly be difficult for the wife, living at the mercy of her parents, having no source of income and saddled with the responsibility of raising her minor daughter, to attend the court proceedings at Ludhiana. 3. As per Section 9 of the Guardians and Wards Act, an application with respect to the guardian of the person of the minor, shall be made to the District Court having jurisdiction in the place where the minor ordinarily resides. Prima facie, the District Courts at Taran Taran have the jurisdiction to entertain and try the application under Section 25 of the Act. 4. This Court, vide order of even date passed in TA No. 327 of 2011, transferred the petition under Section 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act, filed by the respondent from Ludhiana to Taran Taran. 5. In view of the above, the instant transfer application is allowed and the petition under Section 25 of the Act titled as ‘Bikramjit Singh Vs. Gurpreet Kaur’ is withdrawn from the Court of Additional Civil Judge Senior Division and is transferred to the Court of competent jurisdiction at Taran Taran. The entire record pertaining to the petition under Section 25 of the Act, shall be sent by the trial Court at Ludhiana to the learned Additional District Judge, Taran Taran, within three weeks. 6. The parties shall appear before the Court of learned Additional District Judge, Taran Taran, on 27.08.2011, who will either himself dispose it of or entrust it to any other Court of competent TA No.326 of 2011 3 jurisdiction at Taran Taran. 29.07.2011 (JITENDRA CHAUHAN) tarunsahni JUDGE Note : Whether to be referred to Reporter ? Yes / No