In Brief
A husband and wife were involved in multiple family law proceedings in two different cities—custody proceedings and divorce petitions. The wife filed a transfer petition asking the Supreme Court to consolidate all these cases in one court. The Court held that all related family proceedings concerning the same child and matrimonial dispute should be heard together by a single court. Since the husband had filed the original custody petition in Bengaluru first, the Court transferred the husband's pending divorce petition from Chennai to the Bengaluru Family Court, directing that all related cases be assigned to the same bench for consistent justice.
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