law: The Railway Claims Tribunal Act, 1987
  Chapter VI: Miscellaneous
  24. Transfer of pending
  
  cases
  1.  Every
  
  suit, claim or other legal proceeding (other than an appeal) pending before any
  
  court, Claims Commissioner or other authority immediately before the appointed
  
  day, [or, as the case may be, the date of commencement of the provisions of
  
  sub-section (IA) of Section 13] being a suit, claim or proceeding the cause of
  
  action whereon it is based is such that it would have been, if it had arisen
  
  after the appointed day, [or, as the case may be, the date of commencement of
  
  the provisions of subsection (IA) of section 13] within the jurisdiction of the
  
  Claims Tribunal, shall stand transferred on [that day or, as the case may be,
  
  date] to the Claims Tribunal.
  2.  Where
  
  any suit, claim or other legal proceeding stands transferred from any court,
  
  Claims Commissioner or other authority to the Claims Tribunal under sub-section
  
  (1),-
  a.  
  
    The
  
  court, Claims Commissioner or other authority shall, as soon as may be after
  
  such transfer, forward the records of such suit, claim or other legal
  
  proceeding to the Claims Tribunal;
  b.  
  
    The
  
  Claims Tribunal may, on receipt of such records, proceed to deal with such
  
  suit, claim or other legal proceeding, so far as may be, in the same manner as
  
  an application, from the stage which was reached before such transfer or from
  
  any earlier stage or de novo as the Claims Tribunal may deem fit.