' Mst. Razia Bibi is wife of the respondent Abdul Ghafoor. She has made this petition for transfer of a suit for restitution of conjugal rights brought against her by the respondent. That suit is pending before Sh. Rashid Ahmad, Judge, Family Court, Faisalabad. On the other hand, the petitioner has filed a suit for dissolution of marriage, against the respondent, which is being heard by Mr. Shaukat Hussain, Judge, Family Court, Khanewal. The petitioner has prayed that the respondent's suit may be transferred to the said Court at Khanewal.
2. In view of the nature other two suits, common questions of law and fact are likely to arise therein.
Conflicting findings on such questions can be avoided if both the suits are heard and decided by one and the same Court. Further, if the two suits are allowed to be tried by the Courts now seized of them, the petitioner will have to go to Faisalabad to defend the suit brought by the respondent and the latter will have to visit Khanewal to resist he suit instituted by the former. It is, therefore, my desire that one of the parties should be saved the bother and expense to which she/he would be put for going to a place other than the place of her/his residence to contest the suit against her/him. Which of the two parties should be helped in this regard is the question which now falls for consideration. Since the petitioner is a female but the respondent is a male, and the petitioner claims to be a Pardahnasin lady and also apprehends harms at the hands of the respondent in the event of her going to Faisalabad to defend the suit brought against her, I feel that she A deserves to be accommodated in preference to the respondent. Accordingly, I accept this petition and transfer the respondent's suit from the said Family Court of Faisalabad to the above Family Court of Khanewal, which is trying the petitioner's suit for dissolution of marriage.. There shall be no order as to costs.