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Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 526 (e)-Transfer of criminal cases-High Court-Amply empowered to transfer any case pending at one place to any other place within its jurisdiction-Insti­tution of complaint in wrong jurisdiction-Does not mean end of complaint so as to disable its transfer to right jurisdiction. JUDGMENT SAJJAD AHMAD, J.-A complaint' was filed against the petitioner .by the Chairman, Union Committee, Ward No. 56, Lahore, on the complaint of the petitioner's wife, Mst. Shamim Akhtar. under section 6 of the Muslim Family Laws Ordinance, 1961, for having allegedly contracted a second marriage with one Mst. Naheed Akhtar at Rawalpindi, without seeking the previous permission of the Arbitration Council. The complaint was marked for disposal to the Ilaqa Magistrate by the Deputy Commissioner, Lahore. The petitioner appeared before the Magistrate and objected to his jurisdiction to try the case, on the ground that he had no jurisdiction to try the case as the offence had been committed in Rawalpindi and not in Lahore within his territorial jurisdiction. This application was rejected. The petitioner then moved the High Court under section 561-A, Cr. P. C., praying for quashment of the proceedings on the ground of lack of jurisdiction on the part of the Lahore Magistrate to…

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