ORDER :

1. The petitioners have filed this transfer petition under Section 407 of the Cr.P.C. seeking transfer of proceeding under Section 12 of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (for short ‘the Act of 2005’) bearing Criminal Case No. 1054/2021 (Smt. Kritika Sahu vs. Trilok Sahu and Others) pending before the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dhamtari to Raipur principally on the ground that the petitioners are residents of various places of Chhattisgarh as well as of Bilaspur and Raipur and it is highly inconvenient for them to attend the court proceeding at Dhamtari, therefore, it be transferred.

2. Mrs. Renu Kochar, learned counsel appearing for the petitioners, reiterating the grounds raised in the transfer petition would submit that considering the inconvenience being faced by the eight petitioners herein, the proceeding be transferred to the Court at Raipur which has been opposed by Mrs. Aditi Singhvi, learned counsel appearing for the respondent, and she would submit that proceeding under Section 125 of the Cr.P.C. is pending in the Family Court, Dhamtari and the respondent is having a two year old child born out of the wedlock with petitioner No. 1 he