Orissa High Court News

The Supreme Court will hear today a plea challenging the order of the Orissa High Court The HC had refused to restrain the state govt from carrying out excavation work around Shree Jagannath temple at Puri The plea filed before an apex court bench of Justices BR Gavai and Hima Kohli on Monday sought an urgent listing

Journalist Abhijit Iyer Mitra, who was arrested over his alleged derogatory remark on Konark Temple, was on Thursday released from jail after the Orissa High Court granted him bail.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Odisha government had decided to grant pardon to Abhijit, who is lodged in jail for allegedly making derogatory remarks against the state, its people and culture, officials said.

The CBI also recovered Rs One Crore from the one of the accused person and increment documents from the retired judge, during raid.

Court order directing it to re-evaluate answer sheets of 159 students of the state.

The Orissa High Court on Wednesday issued notice to Congress leader Arindam (Bapi) Sharkel asking him why the bail given to him on April 17 should not be recalled in a murder case.

Former Supreme Court judge Balbir Singh Chauhan was today appointed Chairman of the 21st Law Commission, a post lying vacant since last September.

The Supreme Court Thursday said corruption is a self-infection, which has developed resistance to all sorts of curbs and controls, to becomes an economic terror as it upheld validity of the Orissa and Bihar Special Court Act providing for speedy trial of public servants accused of alleged graft and for confiscation of their properties earned illegally.