' Mst. Shamim Bibi alias Sheema is wife of the respondent, Rashid Ahmad. She has made this petition for transfer of a suit for restitution of conjugal rights pending in the Court of Mr. Azhar Hussain Gardezi, Judge, Family Court, Sahiwal, which has been brought against her by the respondent. On the other hand, the petitioner has filed a suit for dissolution of marriage, against the respondent, which is being heard by Mr. Zawar Ahmad, Judge, Family Court, Okara. The petitioner has prayed that the respondent's suit may also be transferred to the said Court at Okara.
2. In view of the nature of the said 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. Besides, if the two suits are allowed to be tried by the Courts now seized of them, the petitioner will have to go to Sahiwal to defend the suit brought by the respondent and the latter will have to visit Okara to resist the suit instituted by the former. It is, therefore, my desire that one of the parties should be saved of 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 famale but the respondent is a male, and she also apprehends harm at the hands of the respondent in the event of her going to Sahiwal to defend the suit brought against her, I feel that she 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 Sahiwal to the Family Court of Okara, which is trying the petitioner's suit for dissolution of marriage.
There shall be no order as to costs.