In Brief
A woman advocate from Mumbai filed transfer petitions seeking to move criminal cases registered in Delhi and Ghaziabad, and another case pending in Ratlam, to a court in Mumbai. She claimed inconvenience and apprehension of unfair investigation. The Supreme Court rejected all transfer petitions, holding that apprehension of bias must be reasonable, not imaginary. The Court emphasized that convenience of one party alone cannot override practical considerations like witness availability. Since investigations were complete and charge sheets filed, grievances must be raised through procedural applications before the trial court, not transfer petitions.
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