SC transfers hit-and-run accident case trial involving judicial officer from Punjab to Delhi court

The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed transfer of an alleged hit-and-run case involving a probationer judicial officer from a court in Punjab to the Rohini trial court here.

A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi transferred the case after the family of the deceased alleged bias in trial as the accused is a judicial officer.

During the hearing, the counsel appearing for the judicial officer submitted that he has no objection if the trial is transferred to a court in Delhi from Punjab but suggested it would be appropriate for him, if the trial is 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. It also transferred