Tag: Orissa High Court

Former district judge A.B.S. Naidu will examine the allegations of lack of proper or timely treatment at the Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research during Covid-19 pandemic.

Jorhat: Former Supreme Court Judge and Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh and Orissa High Courts Sailendu Nath Phukan died on Sunday in upper Assam’s Jorhat district. He was 83 and is survived by two sons and as many daughters. Phukan, a former Chairman of the Assam Human Rights Commission, passed away at a private hospital […]

Bhubaneswar: Justice Bijaya Kumar Nayak, a retired judge of the Orissa High Court, assumed the post of chairperson of the Odisha State Law Commission on Thursday. The Law Commission has been constituted to aid and advise in matters relating to legal reforms and framing of new laws. Jeeban Ballav Mishra, Law Department Additional Secretary, will […]

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court today adjourned to Monday the hearing on a bunch of pleas alleging discrepancies in the poll expenses of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and his party BJD. The bench of Justice S K Mishra adjourned the hearing till July 31 when the counsel for various parties, including the one for the […]

Cuttack: All judges of Orissa High Court today came to the High Court without red beacons on their official vehicles. Three judges had removed the beacons on Thursday itself following the Centre’s decision to do away with VIP culture. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik was among the first in the state to remove the red beacon […]

Cuttack: Hardening their position against what they termed as “police inaction”, lawyers of Orissa High Court today decided to continue their strike till Monday. The general body of Orissa High Court Bar Association unanimously passed a resolution to abstain from court work in protest till those who allegedly threatened Odisha State Bar Council member Chinmaya […]

Cuttack: Demanding immediate arrest of those who had allegedly threatened an advocate and Odisha State Bar Council member, lawyers of Orissa High Court today decided to continue their cease-work agitation till February 2. Advocate Chinmaya Kumar Mohanty has filed a complaint in this regard at Lingaraj police station of Bhubaneswar. “The general body meeting of […]

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court has stayed the operation of an order passed by the director of Bhubaneswar-based Xavier Institute of Management last month terminating the services of two professors. Hearing separate writ petitions filed by the two sacked professors, D V Ramana and Banikanta Mishra, a single-judge bench of Justice S K Mishra in […]

Cuttack: Former Odisha Youth Congress chief Rajat Choudhury, arrested by CBI in connection with the multi-crore chit fund scam, was today granted conditional bail by the Orissa High Court. Choudhury was arrested in July for his alleged role in the scam and illegal collection of public money by Arthatatwa (AT) Group of Companies. Also Read:  Special […]

Justice S N Prasad was sworn in as a permanent judge of Orissa High Court here today

Cuttack: Two judges were today sworn in as permanent judges of the Orissa High Court after they completed the mandatory two years in office as additional judges. Chief Justice Vineet Saran administered the office of affirmation to Justices Biswanath Rath and Sangam Kumar Sahoo at a simple ceremony here inside the premises of the High […]

At least 15 members of the 25-member Bar Council of Odisha on Tuesday moved a no confidence motion against Council chairman Manas Ranjan Mohapatra and its representative to Bar Council of India (BCI) Devi Prasad Dhal

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court issued notices to at least six government engineering colleges in the state, including Vir Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT), today to explain how they would increase the number of seats in certain courses in the current academic session without getting due approval from AICTE. A division bench of Justices […]

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court today slapped an interim stay on the operation of a notification of Odisha government made in February this year for e-auction of liquor shops, taking a serious view that the authorities are going ahead with the process of the e-auction without adhering to a judgement passed by this Court earlier. […]

Cuttack: Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad today took oath as additional judge of Orissa High Court. Prior to this, Justice Prasad was additional judge of Jharkhand High Court. He was born in June 20, 1967. With this new appointment, the number of judges in Orissa HC reached 19.