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Orissa High Court set aside a JMFC order that declined to decide whether a cheque-dishonour case was premature, holding the trial court defied a binding direction from a superior court.
Justice G. Satapathy granted bail to a psychiatric patient accused of hurling a petrol-filled bottle at vehicles parked by the High Court wall, relying on the BNSS first proviso protecting women accused.
The Orissa High Court reversed a 2020 order downgrading a senior OSEPA official, finding the demotion lacked any prescribed qualification requirement and amounted to arbitrary state action.
Justice G. Satapathy refused bail to all 14 accused in the Lalbag PS Case alleging systematic leakage of question papers and model answers in the High Court of Orissa's own ASO examination, 2025.
The Orissa High Court upheld 20-year sentences for two men convicted of abducting and gang-raping a 16-year-old, while setting aside one IPC count for absence of individualised evidence of repeated rape.
A Division Bench at Cuttack restrained Ele Animations Pvt. Ltd. from releasing its animated film on Lord Jagannath, finding its fictional depictions potentially counterproductive during the Rath Yatra period.
The Orissa High Court held that the Odisha Legislative Assembly's 2023 cancellation of a 2021 Reporter recruitment was contrary to a final coordinate Bench judgment and hit by res judicata.
The Orissa High Court held in a matrimonial appeal that a respondent's family refusing notice and a "Left" postal endorsement together establish duly served notice under CPC and the General Clauses Act.
Orissa High Court refuses to quash cheating and conspiracy charges against a doctor accused of helping her husband defraud women through a matrimonial portal, citing a specific money trail and repeated misrepresentations.
Justice V. Narasingh held that where two offences arise from one transaction, directing sentences to run consecutively is contrary to settled law, and extended probation under the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958.
The Orissa High Court held that a witness's status as a surrendered Maoist cannot justify refusing to summon him under Section 311 CrPC, when his name was already in the charge-sheet.
A Division Bench of the Orissa High Court upheld disqualification of a cooperative society member under Section 28(3)(p) of the Orissa Cooperative Societies Act, 1962, rejecting arguments on natural justice and a spousal election petition finding.
The Orissa High Court dismissed the State's appeal, holding that a police recruit's negative disclosure in her Verification Roll was not false because she genuinely had no knowledge of the cases against her.
A Division Bench led by the Chief Justice found police at Pirahat Station had treated a minor child in conflict with law contrary to the Juvenile Justice Act and Odisha Rules, prompting conversion to a PIL.
The Orissa High Court dismissed the State of Odisha's appeal against a direction to revoke termination of a pharmacist who served over 14 years, holding the non-sanctioned post plea cannot shield the State's own inaction.
The Orissa High Court set aside production warrant and police remand orders in an NDPS case, finding the trial court acted in defiance of a subsisting High Court protection order.
The Orissa High Court dismissed a habeas corpus petition filed by a husband seeking his wife's return, finding she had voluntarily left home and imposing Rs 50,000 costs on the petitioner.
The Orissa High Court set aside a 2003 life-sentence conviction under Section 302 IPC, finding the prosecution case riddled with reasonable doubt after key witnesses resiled and ocular evidence contradicted itself.
The Orissa High Court rejected the State of Odisha's challenge to a direction to pay an employee's withheld salary, holding that denial of wages violates the right to livelihood under Article 21.
Justice G. Satapathy held that apprehending an accused in Andhra Pradesh and driving him to Odisha without producing him before the nearest Magistrate violated Article 22(2) and Section 58 of the BNSS.
The Orissa High Court set aside a Magistrate's order that cancelled an interim JCB release without hearing the petitioner, holding it violated natural justice and Section 362 CrPC's bar on review.
Holding that the arrest memo substantially complied with Article 22(1), the Orissa High Court dismissed three CRLMCs but directed the DGP to issue a statewide circular on written grounds of arrest.
The Orissa High Court held that a JMFC order dismissing a bail cancellation application remains interlocutory, barring a Sessions Court revision under Section 397(2) CrPC.
Orissa High Court disposed of a mandamus petition by a 65-year-old Scheduled Caste woman after police registered an FIR eight months late, citing a misplaced order.
