The Supreme Court has cast doubt on its recent judgment in Shri Sendhur Agro & Oil Industries vs. Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd which held that "mere convenience or inconvenience of the parties may not by itself be sufficient enough to pray for transfer" of a criminal case from one state to another as per Section 406 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

A bench comprising Justice Surya Kant (as he was then) and Justice Joymalya Bagchi, in the order passed on November 18 (but uploaded today), referred the Shri Sendhur Agro & Oil Industries case to a larger bench for an authoritative and binding clarification.

The development came in a transfer petition filed by Golla Naraesh Kumar Yadav, a trader from Adoni in Andhra Pradesh, who sought the transfer of two cheque bounce cases initiate

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