IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Transfer Application No.1670 of 2025 (O & M)

Date of decision :-22.05.2026 Mamta Sharma …..Applicant Versus Gauri Shankar …..Respondent CORAM:- HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE NIDHI GUPTA Present:- Mr. Rajesh Bansal, Advocate for the applicant.

None for the respondent despite service.

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 13(1)(1-a) of the Hindu Marriage Act,1955 (for short ‘the Act’) bearing No.DMC/392/2025 titled as “Gauri Shankar vs. Mamta Sharma” (Annexure P-1) pending in the Family Court, Rohtak to a Court of competent jurisdiction at Panipat.

Though notice has been served upon the respondent but no one is appearing on his behalf for the last three dates i.e. 25.3.2026, 27.4.2026 and 07.5.2026. Today also, nobody is present to represent him. Accordingly, this petition is being decided in his absence.

2. Learned counsel for the applicant has contended :-

i) That the parties were married on 09.12.2012 according to Hindu rites and rituals.

ii) That two children, one male and one female were born out of this wedlock on 03.7.20