Cuttack: Orissa high court has come down heavily on Odisha State Education Programme Authority (OSEPA) for arbitrarily demoting an officer after more than 15 years in a higher post, restoring him as assistant director (management information system) with all service and financial benefits and imposing an ‘exemplary’ fine of Rs 1 lakh on the authority.A…
Cuttack: Orissa high court on Wednesday stayed the July 17 release of the animated film ‘Mahaprabhu Jagannath’, saying its screening during Rath Yatra could disturb public order.A division bench of Chief Justice Harish Tandon and Justice MS Raman passed the order on a PIL filed by Mahesh Kumar Sahu of Angul, Dr Pramod Kumar Acharya…
Cuttack: Odisha high court has directed the director of Institute of Management of Agriculture Extension (IMAE) to decide within three months the representation of a group of contractual assistant technology managers seeking regularisation of their services, while making it clear that appointments made through a disputed recruitment process will remain subject to that decision.Justice Biraja…
Bhubaneswar: The state sentence review board (SSRB) has considered the remission plea of 56 life convicts on July 6, information shared by the govt to Orissa high court shows. As per proceedings of an HC order on July 9, hearing a petition on premature release of eligible prisoners, the govt counsel has taken one week’s…
Bhubaneswar: Orissa high court refused to quash an FIR against a woman, a co-accused in the alleged matrimonial fraud racket of serial marriage cheat Ramesh Chandra Swain. The court observed that allegations including her repeated projection as “Bhabhi, the doctor in USA” before prospective brides and the alleged flow of cheated money into accounts linked…
Orissa high court said an employer cannot derive an unfair advantage by forcing a retired employee into prolonged litigation to secure a statutory entitlement Cuttack: Odisha high court has upheld the imposition of a Rs 20,000 fine on Odisha State Cooperative Bank (OSCB), holding that courts are justified in penalising employers who unlawfully withhold statutory…
The Orissa High Court has refused to quash criminal proceedings against a woman accused of forging a man’s signature on a sale deed to fraudulently obtain a marriage certificate under the Special Marriage Act, 1954, and subsequently securing an interim maintenance order against him by claiming to be his wife. The high court said that…
Cuttack: The Supreme Court has stayed further proceedings in the 2020 criminal case filed by actor and former MP Anubhav Mohanty’s former wife, actor Varsha Priyadarshini. It was issuing notice on his petition challenging an Orissa high court order that refused to discharge him from the case.A bench of Justices Sandeep Mehta and Vijay Bishnoi…
Cuttack: The Orissa high court’s vacation bench on Tuesday stayed further action on a fresh recommendation made by the Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC) for appointment to the post of assistant professor (super speciality) in urology at SCB Medical College and Hospital, Cuttack. The court was hearing a petition filed by a doctor whose earlier…
Cuttack: Cautioning that criminal law should not become a tool in failed personal relationships, Orissa high court has acquitted a 25-year-old man of raping a married woman.Setting aside the conviction and 10-year rigorous imprisonment, imposed by a fast-track court in Koraput district, Justice S K Panigrahi on May 22 said consensual relationships between adults cannot…
