Tag: Orissa High Court

Former bureaucrat Prasanna Mishra,ormer Minister and senior BJP leader Samir Dey and Puri MLA Jayant Sarangi filed the petition in Orissa High Court separately seeking immediate conduct of urban polls

The lawyers launched the stir on August 2 and will continue till August 9. A representative from the Orissa High Court Bar Association will meet the Chief Justice Dr Justice S Muralidhar for a discussion of the matter.

The High Court has directed the Crime Branch to register fraud case against those who availed the insurance cover from the company

The Orissa High Court on Monday began live streaming of its proceedings despite stiff opposition by bar association.

Live streaming of Orissa High Court proceedings was vehemently opposed by the Bar Association on Thursday which urged the Chief Justice to rescind the order

Sambalpur: The on-going lawyers’ strike over establishment of Orissa High Court bench in western Odisha has now started to adversely affect the banking services in several parts including Sambalpur. Several banks in the district are staring at losses owing to complete stoppage in the disbursal of fresh loans in the past couple of months. As […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today wrote to Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and reiterated demand for establishment of permanent benches of the Orissa High Court in Western and Southern part of the State. In his letter, Patnaik requested the Centre to take an early decision regarding establishment of the HC benches in […]

Bhubaneswar: Challenging the legality of the Biju Yuva Vahini formed by the State government, Yuva Morcha, the youth wing of BJP, has filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Orissa High Court. Following the PIL, the HC bench comprising Chief Justice KS Jhaveri and Justice KR Mohapatra sought a reply from the State government […]

Cuttack: Despite the directive of the Orissa High Court to Crime Branch to complete its probe by November 9 into alleged police assault of lawyer Debi Prasad Patnaik in Cuttack that triggered the two-month-long agitation; advocates today intensified their stir and burnt effigies of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik at different places across the State. Sticking […]

Cuttack: Intensifying their agitation, lawyers of the Orissa High Court today locked up main gate of the court despite the Supreme Court’s order to withdraw strike. While a meeting of the general body of the Bar Association was scheduled at 2:30 pm to decide on future course of action, the lawyers did not allow the […]

Cuttack: Upping the ante against cops involved in assaulting a lawyer in Cuttack, the State lawyers’ association has decided to observe a statewide cease-work stir till Wednesday. In a meeting of the lawyers’ association at the Orissa High Court Bar Association building today, a decision was taken to extend their agitation to all parts of […]

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court today quashed a notification issued by the state government asking teachers of schools and colleges to submit affidavit for regularisation of jobs. Justice AK Rath quashed the notification stating that conditions mentioned in the notification is violation of fundamental rights of people. Petitioner’s counsel, Buddhadeb Routray, said, “The court has […]

Bhubaneswar: A 15-member delegation of the Central Action Committee today met Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik at the Secretariat demanding establishment of a permanent bench of the Orissa High Court in western part of the State. The delegation including Sambalpur MLA Raseswari Panigrahi and members of the bar association, met Patnaik and presented their long standing […]

Samablpur: A 15-member delegation of the Central Action Committee (CAC) will meet Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on August 6 to discuss their demand for establishment of a permanent bench of the Orissa High Court in Western Odisha. A decision regarding this was taken at a meeting of members of the committee and different bar associations […]

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court lawyers who have been agitating since August 29 demanding arrest of policemen who allegedly assaulted one of the colleagues, today said that they will continue their cease-work stir. In a statement issued today, Orissa High Court Bar Association secretary, Satyabrata Mohanty said that the ongoing cease-work by the lawyers would […]