Tag: Orissa High Court

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.

Cuttack: The state vigilance directorate today submitted a preliminary inquiry report to the Orissa High Court on the basis of which a corruption case was registered against the former Odisha DGP Prakash Mishra who is now serving as the Director General of CRPF. The inquiry report was submitted in a sealed cover and the matter […]

Just a day after Kandhamal BJD MP Pratyusha Rajeswari Singh was issued a notice on a quo warranto writ petition, the Orissa High Court issued yet another notice to her on Thursday on an election petition filed by BJP leader and former MP Rudra Madhav Ray challenging her election as an MP

The Odisha government has allowed Tata Steel to operate its four iron ore mines in the state till January 28 as per an interim order of the Orissa High Court

Taking note of media reports that large tracts of land belonging to the Lord Jagannath Trust are either being encroached upon or sold to influential persons at throwaway prices, Orissa High Court has decided to take up the matter suo motu

The Orissa High Court today granted bail to Akash Pathak, son of suspended IFS officer Abhay Kant Pathak in connection with a fraud allegedly committed by him on pretext of providing employment in Tata Motors

The Orissa High Court has directed the State government to submit a detailed report on the number of deaths caused by Covid-19 in the State.

Cuttack/Balasore: Two days after the BJD legal front withdrew its support from the ongoing lawyers’ strike, the agitating lawyers Monday threatened of a state-wide agitation and staged demonstrations outside various courts in different places across the State. Reportedly, the members of the legal front withdrew their support after the Orissa High Court Bar Association declared […]

Cuttack: Hearing on the much-awaited police-lawyer spat was deferred as State CID, Crime Branch failed to submit a full-fledged charge sheet before the Orissa High Court here on Friday. Earlier, the court had directed the investigating agency to submit a report after completing the pending investigation in connection with the incident by November 9. The […]

Bhubaneswar: Amidst allegations of politicization of the ongoing lawyers’ strike, a youth was detained in connection with the attack on a few advocates in Cuttack today. The youth identified as Santosh Nimai is alleged to be an active member of the newly-formed Biju Yuva Vahini. Though Santosh refuted his association with Biju Yuva Vahini, several […]

Bhubaneswar: Whether justice is being denied could be argued by some, but there seems to be an inordinate delay in justice delivery as it is almost 2 months that the Orissa High Court has remained out of bounds for the common man. It is now for the past two months that the lawyers under the […]