Judiciary

Kataka: The Orissa High Court has directed the State Bank of India (SBI) to pay a lump sum compensation of Rs 20 lakh each to two daily-wage sweepers, who served the bank for nearly three decades, bringing closure to their prolonged…
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Cuttack: A retired government officer from Kalahandi district has finally received his long-overdue pension benefits, thanks to persistent and firm interventions by the Orissa High Court. The court, at one point, ordered the withholding of…
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Cuttack: The Orissa High Court has quashed disciplinary proceedings and punishment against senior judicial officer Lalit Kumar Dash. The court held that the findings against Dash were largely based on presumptions and not backed by…
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Bhubaneswar: A special POCSO court in Cuttack district on Wednesday sentenced a man to 20 years of imprisonment for raping a minor girl in December last year. The court also slapped a penalty of Rs 20,000 on convict Ashok Behera. As per…
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Bhubaneswar: In a setback to BJP MLA Tankadhar Tripathy, the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the Orissa High Court’s order declining to dismiss the election petition of former legislator Dipali Das challenging his victory from Jharsuguda…
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Bhubaneswar: The adage that justice delayed is justice denied resonated in a recent court verdict when the Supreme Court ordered the release on bail of a life convict from Odisha who has remained behind bars for more than 22 years. …
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Bhubaneswar: The Supreme Court on Monday declared bail conditions imposed by courts in Odisha requiring accused persons to clean police stations as “null and void”, strongly censuring what it called a “colonial mindset” and “ex facie…
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Jagatsinghpur: The Eastern Zone bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in Kolkata has taken cognisance of the alleged illegal groundwater extraction by JSW Utkal Steel Limited in Jagatsinghpur district. Reviewing the petition filed…
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Angul: A special POCSO court in Odisha's Angul district has sentenced a 40-year-old man to death for raping and murdering a four-year-old girl. According to case details, the minor girl had gone missing on March 14, 2025, from the Nisha…
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FOR 13 years, Ashok Rana and his wife have lived with a mix of hope and heartbreak. Their son, Harish Rana, was a college student in 2012 when he fell from the fourth floor, leaving him with severe brain injuries. Since then, he has…
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