Dr.Lakshmi Sobhan v. Jayaprakash
Case brief
What is this about?
Kerala HC Ernakulam Tr.P(C) 683/2024, order dated 17.03.2025 by Basant Balaji J.: wife's transfer petition allowed; husband's restitution-of-conjugal-rights O.P. 795/2023 withdrawn from Family Court Thiruvananthapuram and transferred to Family Court Chavara to be tried with wife's O.P.(Others) 42/2023 (recovery of money and gold sovereigns) and O.P.(HMA) 58/2023 (divorce); Supreme Court precedents on convenience-of-wife in matrimonial transfers (Sumitha Singh; Mona Aresh Goel; Vaishali Shridhar Jagtap; Santhini) relied on; respondent absent despite completed service.
What did the court decide?
Tr.P.C. allowed; O.P. No.795 of 2023 withdrawn from the Family Court, Thiruvananthapuram and transferred to the Family Court, Chavara, to be tried along with O.P.(Others) Nos.42 of 2023 and 58 of 2023; the Family Court, Thiruvananthapuram directed to immediately transfer the records, and the Family Court, Chavara to issue notice to the parties for appearance.