The Supreme Court will be hearing on Friday the plea to transfer a hit-and-run case involving a sitting Judicial Magistrate as an accused.

The matter was mentioned today before a bench of Justices Surya Kant, Ujjal Bhuyan and N Kotiswar Singh by counsel for the petitioner, that is, the deceased's wife.

The counsel submitted that the petitioner's husband died due to the hit-and-run incident. The accused is a Judicial Magistrate posted in Hoshiarpur, Punjab and the matter is pending at the stage of framing of charges before Judicial Magistrate, Phagwara.

On a specific query, she informed that the transfer is being sought to a Court in Delhi-NCR.

"Hit and run...where the accused is a judicial magistrate?" Justice Kant asked, on hearing the counsel. The judge further queried why the cas

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