ORDER

This petition under Section 24 of CPC is filed by the petitioner-wife seeking for transfer of O.S.No.102/2023 filed by the respondent-husband pending on the file of Principal Civil Judge and JMFC, Ramanagra to the file of the Judge, Family Court, Bengaluru.

2. The petitioner is the legally wedded wife of the respondent and their marriage was solemnized on 11.09.2019 at Masjid-e-Ansar, Ramanagara Town as per Sunni Muslim principals. After 13 years of the marriage, as matrimonial disputes arose between the parties, the petitioner started living separately with her old age parents and two minor children in Bengaluru. Thereafter, the respondent-husband filed a suit for restitution of conjugal rights in O.S.No.102/2023 before the Principal Civil Judge and JMFC, Ramanagara. Since the petitioner is residing with her age old parents and minor children at Bengaluru, she filed this petition for transfer of O.S.No.102/2023 filed by the respondent-husband to the Family Court, Bengaluru.

3. The learned counsel for the petitioner-wife contended that the petitioner is residing with old-age parents and two minor children at Bengaluru. The respondent-husband filed a suit for restitution of conjugal rights in the Court of Principal Civil Judge & JMFC, Ramanagara. Since the petitioner’s father is old and there are no other male members to accompany her to attend the case in Ramanagara, she has to travel 60 kms. from Bengaluru to Ramanagara to attend the case and it causes more inconvenience to the petitioner and also the respondent-husband is working in Kuwait. Hence, the learned counsel sought to allow the petition.

4. When the matter was called in the morning session, none appeared for the respondent, hence the matter was passed over. Even in the afternoon session, there is no representation on behalf of the respondent.

5. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner.

Perused the petition papers.

6. The petitioner is the legally wedded wife of the respondent and their marriage was solemnized on

11.09.2019 at Masjid-e-Ansar, Ramanagara Town as per Sunni Muslim principals. Out of wedlock, one daughter and one son were born and they are residing with their mother, the petitioner-wife in Bengaluru. Since there was a difference of opinion between the parties, after 13 years from the date of marriage, the petitioner started living separately with her age-old parents and two children at Bengaluru. Thereafter, the respondent-husband filed O.S.No.102/2023 before the Principal Civil Judge and JMFC, Ramanagara for restitution of conjugal rights. Since the distance between Bengaluru and Ramanagara is about 60 kms., it is difficult for the petitioner to travel to Ramanagara to prosecute the case. She is residing with age old parents and two minor children there are no male members to accompany her to attend her case at Ramanagara. Even the respondent-husband is not residing at Ramanagara, he is working in Kuwait.

7. This Court in the case Smt.M.V.Rekha v. Sri Sathya @ Suraj - ILR 2010 KAR 5407 at Paragraph No.15 held as hereunder:

"The cardinal principle for exercise of power under Section 24 of the Code of Civil Procedure is that ends of justice demand the transfer of the suit, appeal or other proceeding. In matrimonial matters, wherever Courts are called upon to consider the plea of transfer, the Courts have to take into consideration the economic soundness of either of the parties, the social strata of the spouses and behavioural pattern, their standard of life antecedent to marriage and subsequent thereon and the circumstances of either of the parties in eking out their livelihood and under whose protective umbrella they are seeking their sustenance to life. Generally, it is the wife's convenience that must be looked at while considering transfer. Further, when two proceedings in different Courts which raise common questions of fact and law and when the decisions are interdependent, it is desirable that they should be tried together by the same Judge to a