Gurmeet Singh Dhody v. Rita Gurmeet Dhody
Case brief
What is this about?
MCA 377 of 2024, Bombay High Court (Civil Appellate Jurisdiction), Rajesh S. Patil J., decided 10 November 2025. Husband's miscellaneous civil application for transfer of wife's Domestic Violence proceedings (including under Section 23 of the Domestic Violence Act) from the Dadar Metropolitan Magistrate Court to the Family Court at Bandra, where the applicant's maintenance application is pending; parties separated for over 30 years; two married daughters; consent terms awaited despite time sought on 3 October 2025 and again till December; matter stood over to 17 November 2025 under caption 'For Settlement' as a last chance at the joint request of both sides. Keywords: transfer of proceedings, Domestic Violence Act Section 23, Dadar Metropolitan Magistrate Court, Family Court Bandra, consent terms, stand over, settlement.
What did the court decide?
As a matter of last chance, at the request of both sides, the matter was stood over to 17 November, 2025, to come up under the caption 'For Settlement'; no decision was rendered on the transfer question.