P&H: Refuses Wife’s Plea to Transfer Cases, Allows Video Hearings

punjab-haryana
⚖️ Order Date: 02 Nov 2026
Headnotes

Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, S.13, Guardians and Wards Act, S.7 — Transfer of proceedings — Distance between courts — Although the distance between two courts is approximately 70 kilometres, distance alone, in the absence of any other compelling circumstance, cannot constitute a sufficient ground for...


Facts of the Case

P&H: Refuses Wife’s Plea to Transfer Cases, Allows Video Hearings

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has dismissed a wife’s applications to transfer a divorce case and a guardianship proceeding from Jind to Rohtak, holding that distance and the wife’s convenience alone did not justify moving the cases.

Justice Mandeep Pannu was hearing two applications filed by Samita @ Sarita. She sought to move her husband’s divorce petition, pending at the Family Court’s camp court in Narwana, and her own guardianship petition, pending at Jind, to the Family Court in Rohtak.

The wife said she was living with her brother in Rohtak after the matrimonial dispute and had no independent...

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