The Orissa High Court has recently concluded hearing a petition on ‘Ratna Bhandar’ or treasury of the Jagannath temple in Puri. A division bench headed by Chief Justice Subhasis Talapatra, heard the... Read more »
Advocate-on-Record (AOR) Sibo Sankar Mishra and Judicial Officer (JO) Ananda Chandra Behera on Tuesday took their oaths as new judges of the Orissa High Court, administered by Chief Justice Subhasis Talapatra. With... Read more »
Justice Subhasis Talapatra, Judge of the Orissa High Court, on Tuesday, took oath as the 33rd Chief Justice of the High Court, following the retirement of the former Chief Justice, Dr. S Muralidhar.... Read more »
The Orissa High Court recently dismissed a criminal case filed against Odisha TV (OTV) for broadcasting a phone conversation related to COVID-19. Chief Justice S Muralidhar’s Bench concluded that the conversation, which... Read more »
In August 2020, a television channel, OTV, aired an audio conversation in which two individuals were discussing the perceived futility of Covid treatment in government hospitals. Three years later, the Orissa High... Read more »
The Orissa High Court has made changes to the charges against senior IAS officer Manish Agarwal in the case involving the mysterious death of his Personal Assistant (PA) Deba Narayan Panda in... Read more »
The Supreme Court recently upheld an Orissa High Court order from 2010 that halted Vedanta’s acquisition of 6,000 acres for a new university. A division bench of Justice MR Shah and Krishna... Read more »
The Orissa High Court has directed the state government to be cautious in developing and implementing health policy matters and to ensure that medical practitioners are not disrupted by it. The observation was... Read more »
The Chief Justice (CJ) of the Orissa High Court, S. Muralidhar, recently inaugurated ten more virtual branches of the High Court in various districts throughout Odisha, bringing the total number of such... Read more »
The Orissa High Court on Wednesday dismissed a plea filed by actress Varsha Priyadarshini seeking the court’s intervention to prevent her actor-turned-politician spouse Anubhav Mohanty from posting disparaging statements about her on... Read more »