SOMANJIT KAUR ALIAS SOMANPREET KAUR vs MANPREET SINGH

Transfer Application No.636 of 2025 (O & M) 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH 143 Transfer Application No.636 of 2025 (O & M) Date of decision :-27.05.2026 Somanjit Kaur @ Somanpreet Kaur …..Applicant Versus Manpreet Singh …..Respondent CORAM:- HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE NIDHI GUPTA Present:- Mr. Shubhashish Kukreti, Advocate for the applicant. None for the respondent. NIDHI GUPTA J. (Oral) 1. Prayer in this petition filed by applicant-wife is for transfer of the petition filed by respondent-husband under Section 9 of the Hindu Marriage Act,1955 (for short ‘the Act’) bearing No. HMA/19/2025 titled as “Manpreet Singh vs. Somanpreet Kaur” (Annexure P-1) pending in the learned Family Court, Fatehgarh Sahib to a Court of competent jurisdiction at Patiala. Order sheets shows that on 09.2.2026, Mr. Prem Chand Joshi, Advocate had put in appearance and filed Power of Attorney on behalf of respondent. On that date, he sought time to file reply. However, thereafter, no one has put in appearance on behalf of respondent. 2. Learned counsel for the applicant submits :- i) That the parties were married on 30.4.2017. ii) That a male child was born out of this wedlock, who, at the t