IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Transfer Application No.1719 of 2025 (O & M)

Date of decision :-22.05.2026 Supreet Kaur …..Applicant Versus Kartik Gautam …..Respondent CORAM:- HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE NIDHI GUPTA Present:- Mr. Amitoj Singh Dhaliwal, Advocate for the applicant.

Mr. Vrishank Suri, Advocate for the respondent.

NIDHI GUPTA J. (Oral)

1. Prayer in this Transfer Application filed by applicant- wife is for transfer of the petition filed by respondent-husband under Section 9 of the Hindu Marriage Act,1955 (for short ‘the Act’) bearing No.DMC/1223/2025 titled as “Kartik Gautam vs. Supreet Kaur” (Annexure P-5) pending in the Family Court, Patiala to a Court of competent jurisdiction at Ludhiana.

2. Learned counsel for the applicant has contended :-

i) That the parties were married on 13.9.2013.

ii) That a male child was born out of this wedlock on

06.12.2014, who is in the care and custody of the applicant.

iii) That the applicant-wife is living separately from the respondent-husband and living with her parents at Ludhiana.

iv) That the applicant is presently working as Branch Head/Branch Manager, SBI, ADB, Mehal Kalan, Barnala, which place is approximately 70 kilomet