Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
24.General power of
transfer and withdrawal.-
(1) On the application
of any of the parties and after notice to the parties and after hearing such of
them as desired to be heard, or of its own motion without such notice, the High
Court or the District Court may at any stage-
(a)
transfer any suit, appeal or other proceeding pending before it for trial or
disposal to any Court subordinate to it and competent to try or dispose of the
same, or
(b)
withdraw any suit, appeal or other proceeding pending in any Court subordinate
to it, and
(i) try or dispose of the same; or
(ii)
transfer the same for trial or disposal to any Court subordinate to it and competent
to try or dispose of the same; or
(iii)
retransfer the same for trial or disposal to the Court from which it was
withdrawn.
(2) Where any suit or
proceeding has been transferred or withdrawn under sub-section (1), the Court
which thereafter tries such suit may, subject to any special directions in the
case of an order of transfer, either retry it or proceed from the point at
which it was transferred or withdrawn.
(3) For the purposes
of this section, Courts of Additional and Assistant Judges shall be deemed to
be subordinate to the District Court.
(4) The Court trying
any suit transferred or withdrawn under this section from a Court of Small
Causes shall, for the purposes of such suit, be deemed to be a Court of Small
Causes.