2000 INSC 0074
                                SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

                                                Deepa

                                                  Vs.

                                            Anil Panicker

                               (S.P.Bharucha and S.M.Quadri JJ.)

                                             17.01.2000

                                               ORDER

1. The respondent husband has been served but he has not chosen to put in an
appearance.

2. The transfer petition is filed by the wife. It seeks the transfer of the petition for
restitution of conjugal rights filed by the husband in the Court of the Judicial
Commissioner, Ranchi to a competent court in Trichur. The wife stays in Trichur. She
avers that she is not employed and has no source of income. Her parents are not
finanacially in a position to pay for her journeys to Ranchi to defend the suit. Apart
from this, she cannot safely undertake a train journey of forty-eight hours or so alone
or stay in Ranchi alone. These averments are not denied. It appears to us, therefore,
appropriate to allow the transfer petition and transfer Matrimonial Suit No.60 of 1999
pending in the Court of Judical Commissioner, Ranchi to the Matrimonial Court,
Trichur.
3. No order as to costs.