{"id":57887,"date":"2000-04-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-04-12T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/munni-kumari-vs-shailendra-kumar-choudhary-on-13-april-2000"},"modified":"2015-11-14T02:08:45","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T20:38:45","slug":"munni-kumari-vs-shailendra-kumar-choudhary-on-13-april-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/munni-kumari-vs-shailendra-kumar-choudhary-on-13-april-2000","title":{"rendered":"Munni Kumari vs Shailendra Kumar Choudhary on 13 April, 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Supreme Court of India<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Munni Kumari vs Shailendra Kumar Choudhary on 13 April, 2000<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: I (2001) DMC 407 SC, JT 2000 (7) SC 408<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: S Majmudar, Y Sabharwal<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>1. Leave granted.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. Having heard learned Counsel for the parties finally, we find that it is an admitted position that the Petitioner has herself filed a criminal complaint in the Court of the learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Vaishali at Hajipur. We are also informed that Hajipur is half way between Samastipur where the Respondent-husband resides and Patna where the Petitioner-wife serves as a nurse. When the Petitioner has herself filed a criminal complaint at Hajipur, the appropriate order to be passed is to direct that the Divorce case pending between the parties filed by the Respondent at Samastipur should be transferred to the District Court at Hajipur. The learned District Judge, Hajipur may try the case himself or assign the same to any other Court of competent jurisdiction. Ordered accordingly.\n<\/p>\n<p>3. The appeal is allowed accordingly. No costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court of India Munni Kumari vs Shailendra Kumar Choudhary on 13 April, 2000 Equivalent citations: I (2001) DMC 407 SC, JT 2000 (7) SC 408 Bench: S Majmudar, Y Sabharwal JUDGMENT 1. Leave granted. 2. Having heard learned Counsel for the parties finally, we find that it is an admitted position that the Petitioner [&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-57887","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>Munni Kumari vs Shailendra Kumar Choudhary on 13 April, 2000 - 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\/munni-kumari-vs-shailendra-kumar-choudhary-on-13-april-2000\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Munni Kumari vs Shailendra Kumar Choudhary on 13 April, 2000 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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