KALPANA SAHOO Vs. MANAS RANJAN KHATUA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This matter is taken up by hybrid mode.

(2.) This application has been filed by the petitioner-wife under Sec. 24 of C.P.C. for transfer of C.P. Case No.285 of 2021 filed by the opp. party-husband under Sec. 13 (1) (i-a) of the Hindu Marriage Act in the Court of learned Judge, Family Court, Cuttack, to the Court of learned Judge, Family Court, Kendrapara.

(3.) Mr. Swain, learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the marriage between the petitioner and opp. party has been solemnized on 22. 02.2021 and she has been ill-treated and harassed by the opp. party-husband and his family members on account of demand for dowry and when she was seven months pregnant, she was not given medicine or day-to -day expenses and was assaulted by her husband on 6/8/2021 under the influence of alcohol, for which she had left her husband's house and she had given birth of a male child on 11/3/2022 in her father's house. Copy of the birth certificate of the child has been annexed as Annexure-1 to the transfer application. So, it would be difficult for her to travel to Kendrapara with a small child.