T.A.No.69 of 2009 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH T.A.No.69 of 2009 Date of Decision : 7.5.2009 Surjit Kaur ....Petitioner Versus Jatinder Pal Singh ...Respondent CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE MAHESH GROVER .... Present : Mr.Vipin Mahajan, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr.G.S.Mann, Advocate for the respondent. ... MAHESH GROVER, J. This is a petition under Section 24 of the Code of Civil Procedure for transfer of petition under Section 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act titled as “Jatinder Pal Singh v. Surjit Kaur', pending in the Court of learned Addl.District Judge, Chandigarh, to Gurdaspur. It is the case of the petitioner that her permanent place of posting is Mohali but she opted for deputation at Amritsar for the reason that the respondent was a permanent resident of Gurdaspur. The petition under Section 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act has been filed at Chandigarh. It is the contended case of the learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner is having two minor children to take T.A.No.69 of 2009 -2- care of and it is extremely difficult for her to visit Chandigarh to attend to the proceedings. Learned counsel for the respondent, on the other hand, contended that since the petitioner is permanently posted at Mohali, therefore it is very convenient for her to attend to the proceedings at Mohali. He, however, has not denied that she is currently posted at Amritsar. After hearing the learned counsel for the parties and keeping in view the grounds taken by the petitioner for transferring the proceedings in question and the counter filed to it and also keeping in view the observations of the Apex Court in Sumita v. Kumar Sanjay and others AIR 2002 SC 396, the petition is allowed and the proceedings under Section 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 are transferred from Chandigarh to a Court of competent jurisdiction at Amritsar, which shall issue notice to both the parties on receipt of the case. 7.5.2009 (MAHESH GROVER) JUDGE dss