THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE V. GOPALA KRISHNA RAO TRANSFER CIVIL MISCELLANEOUS PETITION No.405 of 2025 ORDER: Today, when the matter has been taken up for hearing, it is brought to the notice of this Court that as per the endorsement of the Registry, notice was duly served on the respondent, and acknowledgment of service was also received. However, despite such service, there was no appearance on behalf of the respondent. 2. The petitioner/wife herein filed the present petition under Section 24 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (for short, >the C.P.C.?), seeking to withdraw H.M.O.P.No.283 of 2024, on the file of learned Principal Senior Civil Judge, Tirupathi, and transfer the same to the learned Principal Senior Civil Judge, Kakinada for trial and disposal. 3. The case of the petitioner in brief is as follows: i. The petitioner is the legally wedded wife of the respondent/husband, and their marriage was solemnized on 13.03.2020 at L.V.Kalyana Mandapam, Tiruchanoor, Tirupathi, as per Hindu Rights and Customs. Thereafter, due to matrimonial disputes between the parties, the petitioner/wife has been residing separately in her parents? house at Kakinada along with her male child. The petitioner got filed M.C.No.27 of 2024, on the file of IV 2 Additional Judicial First Class Magistrate, Kakinada, seeking maintenance and the same is pending for adjudication. ii. The petitioner further pleaded that the respondent/husband, to cause inconvenience to the petitioner, filed H.M.O.P.No.283 of 2024, on the file of learned Principal Senior Civil Judge, Tirupathi, seeking for dissolution of the marriage under Section 13(1) (ia) (ib) of Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 and the same is pending for adjudication. The petitioner further pleaded that the distance between Tirupathi and Kakinada is approximately 700 kms, and that it is very difficult for the petitioner/wife to appear before the learned Principal Senior Civil Judge, Tirupathi, on each and every adjournment without any male assistance, and that she is constrained to file this petition. 4. Heard Ms.Taddi Sowmya Naidu, learned counsel for the petitioner. 5. Perused the material available on record. 6. The material on record prima facie shows that, in view of the matrimonial disputes between the parties, the petitioner/wife has been residing separately in her parents? house at Kakinada and depending upon the mercy of her parents. The material on record further discloses that the respondent/husband filed a divorce petition against the petitioner/wife vide H.M.O.P.No.283 of 2024, on the file of learned Principal Senior Civil Judge, Tirupathi, seeking for dissolution of the marriage under Section 13(1) (ia) (ib) of Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, the same is pending for adjudication. The material on record further reveals that the petitioner filed M.C.No.27 of 2024, 3 on the file of IV Additional Judicial First Class Magistrate, Kakinada, seeking maintenance. 7. The Apex Court in a case of GEETA HEERA Vs HARISH CHANDER HEERA1, held by considering the fact that <if a wife does not have sufficient funds to visit the place where the divorce petition is filed by her husband, then the transfer petition filed by the wife may be allowed.= 8. The Apex Court in a case of N.C.V. Aishwarya Vs A.S.Saravana Karthik Sha2 held as follows: <9. The cardinal principle for exercise of power under Section 24 of the Code of Civil Procedure is that the ends of justice should 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 both the parties, the social strata of the spouses and their behavioural pattern, their standard of life prior to the marriage and subsequent thereto and the circumstances of both the parties in eking out their livelihood and under whose protective umbrella they are seeking their sustenance to life. Given the prevailing socio- economic paradigm in the Indian society, generally, it is the wife’s convenience which must be looked at while considering transfer.” 9. On considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner and in view of the ratio laid down in the aforesaid case laws that, in matrimonial proceedings, the convenience of the wife has to be taken into consideration rather than the inconvenience of the husband and therefore, I am of the considered view that there are justifiable grounds to consider the 1(2000) 10 SCC 304 2 2022 LiveLaw (SC) 627 4 request made by the petitioner/wife seeking transfer of H.M.O.P.No.283 of 2024, on the file of learned Principal Senior Civil Judge, Tirupathi, to the file of learned Principal Senior Civil Judge, Kakinada. 10. In the result, the present Transfer Civil Miscellaneous Petition is allowed, and H.M.O.P.No.283 of 2024, on the file of learned Principal Senior Civil Judge, Tirupathi, is hereby withdrawn and transferred to the file of the learned Principal Senior Civil Judge, Kakinada. The learned Principal Senior Civil Judge, Tirupathi, shall transmit the case record in H.M.O.P.No.283 of 2024, to the file of the learned Principal Senior Civil Judge, Kakinada, as expeditiously as possible, preferably within a period of two (02) weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. There shall be no order as to costs. As a sequel, miscellaneous petitions, if any pending and the Interim Order granted earlier, if any, shall stand closed. _______________________________ JUSTICE V. GOPALA KRISHNA RAO Date: 28.01.2026 MH 5 6 31 THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE V. GOPALA KRISHNA RAO TRANSFER CIVIL MISCELLANEOUS PETITION No.405 of 2025 Date: 28.01.2026 MH