or from District Court to Family Court. Transfer of matrimonial cases from the family court to a civil court having such jurisdiction held impermissible. Basis for such conclusion in this ruling, is the hierarchal differentiation of the Court of Family Judge and other equally competent Court viz., the Senior Civil Judge. In the sense, the cadre to which the presiding officer of family Court being a District Judge is considered attaching significant importance and the Court of Senior Civil Judge, where, the presiding officer, usually, is a Senior Civil Judge, who is inferior to the cadre of District Judge. The provisions of Family Court Act, which govern functioning of family Court, are also considered in this ruling, pointing out that, they stand differently than what the courts of Senior Civil Judges follow procedurally, in the matrimonial disputes. 10. However, it appears that earlier ruling of this Court when at Hyderabad in V. Sailaja vs. V. Koteswara Rao (2003(1) ALD, 673), in the same context, was not brought to the notice of the learned Judge. This ruling, in turn, relied on earlier decision of this court in P.Jayalakshmi vs. K. Revichandran (AIR 1992 AP 190). There is also elaborate discussion in Sailaja’s case, referred to supra, in respect of jurisdiction of family Court vis-à-vis a Court of ordinary civil Jurisdiction, conferred with jurisdiction to decide the matrimonial matters. It is desirable to extract hereunder the relevant observations in Sailaja’s case, for benefit, in Paras-13 to 16.
