{"id":201580,"date":"2009-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/varsha-kochhar-vs-biku-sarmah-anr-on-12-january-2009"},"modified":"2015-09-19T13:18:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T07:48:47","slug":"varsha-kochhar-vs-biku-sarmah-anr-on-12-january-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/varsha-kochhar-vs-biku-sarmah-anr-on-12-january-2009","title":{"rendered":"Varsha Kochhar vs Biku Sarmah &amp; Anr on 12 January, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Supreme Court of India<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Varsha Kochhar vs Biku Sarmah &amp; Anr on 12 January, 2009<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: S.B. Sinha, Mukundakam Sharma<\/div>\n<pre>                                      IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA\n\n                          CRIMINAL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION\n\n                     TRANSFER PETITION (CRL.) NO. 241 OF 2004\n\n\nVARSHA KOCHAR                                                     ...    PETITIONER(S)\n\n                                          :VERSUS:\n\nBIKU SARMAH AND ANR.                                              ...    RESPONDENT(S)\n\n\n\n                                          ORDER\n<\/pre>\n<p>             Despite service of notice, nobody appears for the respondents.<\/p>\n<p>             Keeping in view the facts and circumstances of this case, we allow this<\/p>\n<p>    transfer petition, directing that CR 18 OF 2004, titled as Biku Sarma vs. Varsha<\/p>\n<p>    Kochar, pending before the Court of S.D.J.M., Margherita, Assam State, be<\/p>\n<p>    transferred to the Court of competent jurisdiction at Mumbai.<\/p>\n<p>             Let the records of the case be transferred to the Chief Metropolitan<\/p>\n<p>    Magistrate, Mumbai, who may try the case himself or may assign the same to a Court<\/p>\n<p>    of competent jurisdiction.\n<\/p>\n<p>             The transferee Court shall issue notice to both the parties after fixing a date<\/p>\n<p>    of hearing.\n<\/p>\n<p>             However, as the respondents hail from State of Assam, we request the<\/p>\n<p>    transferee Court to fix a specific date of hearing so that the respondents may remain<\/p>\n<p>    present on that date with their witnesses.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">                                         -2-<\/span><br \/>\n         It is made clear that on the date so fixed by the transferee Court, when the<\/p>\n<p>respondents are present along with their witnesses, the petitioner shall not take any<\/p>\n<p>adjournment.\n<\/p>\n<p>         The transfer petition is allowed accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..J<br \/>\n                                              (S.B. SINHA)<\/p>\n<p>                                              &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..J<br \/>\n                                             (Dr. MUKUNDAKAM SHARMA)<\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI,<br \/>\nJANUARY 12, 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court of India Varsha Kochhar vs Biku Sarmah &amp; Anr on 12 January, 2009 Bench: S.B. Sinha, Mukundakam Sharma IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION TRANSFER PETITION (CRL.) NO. 241 OF 2004 VARSHA KOCHAR &#8230; PETITIONER(S) :VERSUS: BIKU SARMAH AND ANR. &#8230; RESPONDENT(S) ORDER Despite service of notice, nobody appears for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supreme-court-of-india"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Varsha Kochhar vs Biku Sarmah &amp; Anr on 12 January, 2009 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/varsha-kochhar-vs-biku-sarmah-anr-on-12-january-2009\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Varsha Kochhar vs Biku Sarmah &amp; 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