Shah Newaz Khan . vs The State Of Nagaland State Of Nagaland ... on 26 October, 2016
42. The Honourable Supreme Court in Shah Newaz Khan and
Others Vs. State of Nagaland and Others reported in 2023 SCC Online
SC 203 though did not deal with an identical issue but while deciding a
transfer application seeking for transfer of the suit from the Court of
District Judge at Dimapur, Nagaland to the Court of District Judge,
Gauhati, Assam, held that a narrow interpretation of Section 25 of C.P.C.
imposing a bar on application under Section 24 for transfer of a suit,
appeal or other proceeding by the common Gauhati High Court inter se
the four states in relation to which it exercises jurisdiction should not be
given which could place a heavy burden and might test an
unsurmountable obstacle for litigants of the far flung areas of the North
East, if they were made to approach the Supreme Court for such transfer
on the specious ground that the Civil Court to which the same is
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proposed to be transfered is in a state other than the state in which the
suit has been instituted.