IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Transfer Application No.186 of 2026 (O & M)

Date of decision :-12.05.2026 Rajdeep Kaur …..Petitioner Versus Sunny Kumar …..Respondent CORAM:- HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE NIDHI GUPTA Present:- Mr. Hardik Ahluwalia, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Raghav Monga, Advocate with Mr. Nitish Handa, Advocate and Mr. Deepak Sharma, Advocate for the respondent.

NIDHI GUPTA J. (Oral)

1. Prayer in this petition filed by petitioner-wife is for transfer of the petition filed by respondent-husband under Sections 12(2)(a)(i) and 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act,1955 (for short ‘the Act’) bearing DMC/315/2025 titled as “Sunny Kumar vs. Rajdeep Kaur” (Annexure P-2) pending in the Court of Principal Judge, Family Court, Fatehgarh Sahib to a Court of competent jurisdiction at Ludhiana.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits :-

i) That the parties were married on 14.11.2021 according to Sikh rites and rituals.

ii) That a female child was born out of this wedlock, whose date of birth is 20.12.2022 and is in the care and custody of the petitioner.

iii) That the petitioner-wife is living separately from the respondent-husband since 18.4.2023 and living alongwith he