Cuttack:16/7/18; The Orissa High Court on Monday granted conditional bail to industrialist Mahimananda Mishra, in connection with Cuttack Press Chhak bombing case and Paradip Tarinigada firing case. Hearing the bail plea of the accused industrialist, Mahimananda, managing director of Odisha Stevedores Limited, Justice Debabrata Das had reserved the verdict on July 11. Granting him the bail against the deposit of two ...

Bhubaneswar:31/5/18; Justice Bijaya Kumar Nayak, a retired judge of the Orissa High Court, assumed the post of chairperson of the Odisha State Law Commission on Thursday. The Law Commission has been constituted to aid and advise in matters relating to legal reforms and framing of new laws. Jeeban Ballav Mishra, Law Department Additional Secretary, will be the secretary to the ...

Sambalpur9/3/18;: In a major development, the Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC) today directed the Additional Chief Secretary of Odisha Home Department to pay Rs 3 lakh as compensation in connection with the custodial death case where an under-trial prisoner died under mysterious circumstances at Jujumura in Sambalpur last year. As per sources, the Town Police had arrested one Abhay Singh, ...

Bhubaneswar:5/1/18; Chit fund scam accused and Seashore Group of Companies CMD Prashant Dash was today released from Jharpada Special Jail here. Dash walked out of the jail as he has been granted bail in eight cases against him by CBI and Crime Branch. In 2013, Dash was arrested by the state Crime Branch from Mumbai for allegedly duping Rs 578.20 ...

Balasore:21/12/17; Vigilance sleuths on Wednesday arrested head of SCB Clinical Hematology Department, Dr Rabindra Kumar Jena, who was absconding on charges of embezzling Odisha State Treatment Fund (OSTF). The anti corruption wing nabbed him near Laxmannath check-gate, on charges of amassing properties disproportionate to his known sources of income, while he was returning from West Bengal. He will be produced ...

Bhubaneswar:8/12/17; Odisha government on Friday filed a counter affidavit in Supreme Court accusing the Centre of providing misleading information on the ongoing Mahanadi water dispute with Chhattisgarh. The step comes after the Centre submitted an affidavit before the Supreme Court contending that there is no need to constitute a tribunal to resolve the Mahanadi river water dispute as the Odisha government ...

Cuttack  1/12/17: Odisha High Court today rejected bail petition of senior BJD MLA Pravat Biswal arrested by the CBI for his alleged connection with a chitfund scam in Odisha. The HC while hearing Biswal’s bail plea directed the investigating agency to conclude the investigation of case within two months. Biswal had moved a petition in the court seeking bail on health ground. ...

Newdelhi:12/11/17;The Supreme Court collegium will take a call on appointing 40 new judges to nine courts, a senior functionary said even as 106 judges have been appointed to the constitutional courts this year.   The law ministry has forwarded recommendations from nine high courts to appoint 40 judges to the Supreme Court collegium.   The high courts from where the ...

New Delhi: 10/11/17; The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain the plea seeking minority status for Hindus in several states. The apex court asked the petitioner to approach the National Commission for Minorities. The plea was filed by Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and lawyer Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay. The plea stated that minority rights are being drawn off “illegally ...

Newdelhi:27/9/17:: Former Chhattisgarh High Court judge Ishrat Masroor Quddusi has “deep roots in the society” and cannot tamper with evidence, a Delhi court today said while granting him bail in connection with an alleged medical college corruption case. It, however, directed the 67-year-old former judicial officer to surrender his passport to the CBI within two days and not leave the country ...