Order

TRANSFER PETITION (CRIMINAL) N0. 77 OF 2007

K.G. Balakrishnan, CJI. —

The petitioner claims that the respondent was her mother’s counsel in a number of matrimonial and maintenance cases filed by her mother against her father. She alleges that she is in her twenties and engaged to one Parminder Singh. She claims that the respondent had advised the petitioner to file a petition under section 18 of the Hindu Adoption & Maintenance Act against her father, seeking the expenses of her forthcoming marriage and in that behalf, took signatures from her on several blank papers. Thereafter, respondent having evil designs on her started pressurizing her to break off her engagement and marry him, though he was 48 years of age and already married having two children. The petitioner and her mother warned the respondent that he should not harbour such feelings. The respondent became furious and threatened the petitioner that he would not allow her to live in peace.

2.According to her, with a view to spoil her marriage prospects, the respondent filed a frivolous civil suit against the petitioner, her brothers and other relatives; that in furtherance of his evil designs, he also forged a letter