Supreme Court: Family Court Cannot Try Criminal Cases Under Indian Penal Code

CASE PERCEPTIONS

• The Supreme Court remarked while amending a former 'wrong' order it had passed in a transfer petition that the family court could not deal with a criminal complaint for various offences under the Indian Penal Code.
• The Court had recently permitted a transfer petition 'as prayed for'. However, the said application looked to move a criminal case enrolled under different provisions of the Indian Penal Code from the Judicial Magistrate Court Thane, Maharashtra to other such courts
• The Family Judge, Vadodara, Gujarat, on getting the documents, composed a letter to the Supreme Court Registry and carried this error to its notification. Hence, the matter was again positioned under the steady gaze of the Court as a 'Miscellaneous Application'.

CASE RELEVANCES

• The Court then, at that point altered the previous request with a bearing to move the criminal procedures to a competent court in Vadodara, Gujarat as coordinated by the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Vadodara.
• In the event that the Family Court, Vadodara has effectively received the document of the moved case, the same will be shipped off to the Chief Judicial Magistrate for assignment to a competent court.

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