BASHESHWAR NATH Vs. STATE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS is an application for the transfer of a case pending in the Court of Sri A. N. Singh, judicial Magistrate 1st class, Hardoi, to some Magistrate at Allahabad, competent to try it.

(2.) ON behalf of the State a preliminary objection is taken to the hearing of this application by this court on the ground that this Court has no jurisdiction under the provisions of the U. P. High courts (Amalgamation) Order, 1948, inasmuch as the case in respect of which relief is claimed from this Court is pending within the jurisdiction of the Lucknow Bench or is one in respect of which the Lucknow Bench alone can exercise jurisdiction.

(3.) THE relevant clause in the Amalgamation Order is Clause 14. Clause 14 is in these words :