( 1 ) IN this Civil Petition the wife has filed an application under Section. 24 C. P. . C. seeking the withdrawal of the case in M. C. No. 20/88 from the file of the Principal Civil Judge, bagalkot and to transfer of the same to Principal civil Judge, Dharwad or any other equivalent Court having the jurisdiction to try the case in Dharwad.

( 2 ) THE material facts are that the husband has filed a matrimonial case in M. C. No. 20/88 before the Court of the Principal civil Judge, Bagalkot for restitution of conjugal rights. The case is pending before the court. The petitioner is not living in bagalkot in the house of her husband. She is residing with her parents at Dharwad. The main reason for seeking a transfer is the danger to life which the petitioner is entertaining in her mind from her own husband. Several allegations have been made to make out a case that the husband is demanding dowry from the petitioner and on account of resistance from the petitioner the situation has become dangerous and explosive. She has even gone to the extent of alleging that the respondent, his parents and his sister had attempted to beat the petitioner and had subjected her to abusive