SC transfers hit-and-run case involving probationer judicial officer from Punjab to Delhi

The Supreme Court on Thursday transferred a hit-and-run case allegedly involving a probationer judicial officer from a court in Punjab to the Rohini trial court in the National Capital.

A Bench led by Justice Surya Kant ordered transfer of the case after the family of the deceased alleged bias in trial as the accused is a judicial officer.

The lawyer representing the judicial officer said he had no objection to the trial being transferred to a court in Delhi from Punjab. He, however, suggested that it would be appropriate for him, if the trial was transferred to Noida in Uttar Pradesh, as the victim’s sister-in-law was a practising advocate in Delhi.

However, the Bench transferred the trial of the case to a court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Rohini, in Delhi. It also transferred another case in which the victim’s wife has sought transfer of case from Punjab Police to the CBI.

The Bench said if any further investigation was needed in the case, it shall be done by the Delhi Police.

The top court also transferred a Motor Accident Claim Tribunal case from Kullu in Himachal Pradesh to a court in Delhi.

The wife of the deceased has claimed that her husband died due to a hit-and-run accident in February this year involving a car of the judicial officer posted in Hoshiarpur district of Punjab.

The court was informed that the matter was pending at the stage of framing of charges before the judicial magistrate court in Phagwara.