2008 INSC 0785
                                    SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

                                                 Geeta Devi

                                                      Vs.

                                                Anand Kumar

                                         T.P.(Civil)No.65 of 2007

                                    (S.B.Sinha and P.P. Naolekar,JJ.)

                                                 12.03.2008

                                                   ORDER

1. Nobody appears on behalf of the respondent despite service of notice. Heard the learned
counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner. Keeping in view the facts and circumstances of
this case, we direct that O.S. No. 229/2006, titled as Anand Kumar vs. Geeta Devi, filed by
the respondent herein under Section 13of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, pending in the
Court of Civil Judge, Senior Division, Deoria (U.P.) be transferred to the Court of District
Judge, Delhi. The Civil Judge, Senior Division, Deoria, may send all record of the case to the
District Judge, Delhi who shall take up the matter for trial himself or may transfer to a Court
of competent jurisdiction. The transferee Court shall issue a fresh notice to the parties after
fixing the date of hearing.

2. The transferee Court shall, keeping in view the fact that the respondent is a resident of
Deoria in the State of U.P., accommodate the respondent as far as practicable and shall make
all endeavour to take up the matter on the dates fixed for hearing. The petitioner shall not
seek any adjournment, without any cogent reasons, on the dates on which the matter is fixed.

3. The transfer petition is allowed accordingly.

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