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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION
TRANSFER PETITION (C) NO.1661 OF 2024
ALIJA NOOR Petitioner(s)
VERSUS
MOHD. ZUNAID Respondent(s)
O R D E R
1. Read the office report dated 25th November, 2024.
2. Despite having agreed to participate in mediation proceedings, the
respondent-husband has stayed away. This appears from the report of the
Mediator dated 21st November, 2024. Be that as it may.
3. By presenting this petition under Section 25 of the Code of Civil
Procedure, 1908, the petitioner-wife seeks transfer of divorce proceedings
initiated by the respondent-husband, being Civil Suit No. 199 of 2024 titled
“Mohd. Zunaid Vs. Aliza Noor”, from the Family Court, Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh to
the Family Court, Karkardooma, Delhi on the grounds urged therein.
4. We have heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the averments
made in the transfer petition.
5. The petitioner-wife has expressed serious difficulties and problems that
she is likely to face if the proceedings were continued in the Family Court,
Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh. These, in our view, would far outweigh the inconvenience
the respondent-husband might encounter if the proceedings were transferred to
and conducted at the Family Court, Karkardooma, Delhi. Thus, we are of the
considered opinion that the prayer for trans...