Orissa High Court

High Court of Orissa
ଓଡ଼ିଶା ଉଚ୍ଚ ନ୍ୟାୟାଳୟ
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20°27′54″N 85°51′32″E / 20.4650°N 85.8589°E / 20.4650; 85.8589
Established26 July 1948 (1948-07-26)
JurisdictionOdisha
LocationCuttack, Odisha
Coordinates20°27′54″N 85°51′32″E / 20.4650°N 85.8589°E / 20.4650; 85.8589
Composition methodPresidential with confirmation of Chief Justice of India and Governor of respective state
Authorised byConstitution of India
Appeals toSupreme Court of India
Judge term lengthMandatory retirement at 62 years of age
Number of positions33 (24 Permanent + 9 Additional)
Websitewww.orissahighcourt.nic.in
Chief Justice
CurrentlyHarish Tandon
Since26 March 2025
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The Orissa High Court is the High Court for the Indian state of Odisha.

The then Bengal Presidency was a vast province including present day Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal. It was difficult to administratively manage such a vast area, inhabited by people speaking different languages and having different traditions. Administrative exigencies required separation of such areas which originally did not form part of Bengal. So, the new province of Bihar and Odisha was formed on 22 March 1912. However, the said new province of Bihar and Odisha was under the jurisdiction of the Calcutta High Court.

History

On 9 February 1916, in exercise of the powers under Section 113 of the Government of India Act, 1915, the King of the United Kingdom issued letters of patent constituting the High Court of Patna. Odisha was placed under the jurisdiction of Patna High Court. Although, on 18 May 1916, Circuit Court of Patna High Court for Odisha held its first sitting at Cuttack.

On 1 April 1936, Odisha was made a separate province but no separate High Court was provided for it. The Government of India agreed to create a new High Court, and for that purpose the Government of India issued the Odisha High Court Order, 1948, under the Section 229(1) of the Government of India Act, 1935, on 30 April 1948. Finally, on 26 July 1948, Odisha High Court was formally inaugurated.[1]

The seat of the court is Cuttack. The court had a sanctioned judge strength of 27 which stood increased to 33 by the notification dated 2nd February, 2022.[1]

In an innovative effort, Museum of Justice has been established at, Cuttack inside the historic compound of Barabati Fort, Cuttack.[2]

List of Sitting Judges in Orissa High Court (Seniority Wise)

Source

# Judge Date of Appointment Date of Retirement Date of birth
1 Justice Manash Ranjan Pathak 21 July 2025 27 August 2027 28 August 1965
2 Justice Sangam Kumar Sahoo 02 July 2014 04 June 2026 5 June 1964
3 Justice Krushna Ram Mohapatra 17 April 2015 17 April 2027 18 April 1965
4 Justice Dixit Krishna Shripad 12 May 2025 19 July 2026 20 July 1964
5 Justice Bibhu Prasad Routray 08 November 2019 31 January 2032 01.02.1970
6 Justice Sanjeeb Kumar Panigrahi 10 February 2020 28 July 2034 29.07.1972
7 Justice Savitri Ratho 11 June 2020 03 July 2030 04 July 1968
8 Justice Mruganka Sekhar Sahoo 19 October 2021 06 September 2033 7 September 1971
9 Justice Radha Krishna Pattanaik 19 October 2021 24 October 2032 25 October 1970
10 Justice Sashikanta Mishra 19 October 2021 16 January 2029 17 January 1967
11 Justice Aditya Kumar Mohapatra 05 November 2021 25 February 2031 26 February 1969
12 Justice V. Narasingh 14 February 2022 18 January 2029 19 January 1967
13 Justice Biraja Prasanna Satapathy 14 February 2022 19 August 2028 20 August 1966
14 Justice Murahari Sri Raman 14 February 2022 07 June 2032 08 June 1970
15 Justice Sanjay Kumar Mishra 10 June 2022 13 November 2029 14 November 1967
16 Justice Gourishankar Satapathy 13 August 2022 24 April 2034 25 April 1972
17 Justice Chittaranjan Dash 13 August 2022 11 November 2026 12 November 1964
18 Justice Sibo Sankar Mishra 5 September 2023 2 May 2030 3 May 1968
19 Justice Ananda Chandra Behera 5 September 2023 29 May 2026 30 May 1964

List of Chief Justices of Orissa High Court

Source

# Portrait Chief Justice Tenure Parent High Court Appointer
(Governor)
1 Justice Bira Kishore Ray 26 July 1948 30 October 1951 3 years, 96 days Patna High Court Asaf Ali
2 Justice B. Jagannadha Das 31 October 1951 3 March 1953 1 year, 123 days Orissa High Court
3 Justice Lingaraj Panigrahi 4 March 1953 21 March 1956 3 years, 17 days Orissa High Court Saiyid Fazl Ali
4 Justice R. L. Narasimham 22 March 1956 27 December 1964 8 years, 280 days Orissa High Court P. S. Kumaraswamy Raja
5 Justice Khaleel Ahmed 18 January 1965 5 April 1967 2 years, 77 days Patna High Court Ajudhia Nath Khosla
6 Justice Satya Bhusan Barman 6 April 1967 30 April 1969 2 years, 24 days Orissa High Court
7 Justice G. K. Misra 1 May 1969 30 October 1975 6 years, 182 days Orissa High Court Shaukatullah Shah Ansari
8 Justice Siba Narain Sankar 1 November 1975 12 October 1977 1 year, 345 days Delhi High Court Akbar Ali Khan
9 Justice S. K. Ray 13 October 1977 4 November 1980 3 years, 22 days Orissa High Court Bhagwat Dayal Sharma
10 Justice Ranganath Mishra 16 January 1981 14 March 1983 2 years, 57 days Orissa High Court C. M. Poonacha
11 Justice Dambarudhar Pathak 11 August 1983 28 February 1986 2 years, 201 days Gauhati High Court
12 Justice Hari Lal Agrawal 1 May 1986 31 July 1989 3 years, 91 days Patna High Court Bishambhar Nath Pande
13 Justice B. L.Hansaria 22 February 1990 13 December 1993 3 years, 294 days Gauhati High Court Yagya Dutt Sharma
14 Justice G. T. Nanavati 31 January 1994 27 September 1994 239 days Gujarat High Court B. Satya Narayan Reddy
15 Justice V. A. Mohta 28 September 1994 25 April 1995 209 days Bombay High Court
16 Jusitce S. N. Phukan 2 August 1996 27 January 1999 2 years, 178 days Gauhati High Court Gopala Ramanujam
17 Justice Biswanath Agrawal 18 November 1999 18 October 2000 335 days Patna High Court M. M. Rajendran
18 Justice N. Y. Hanumanthappa 17 February 2001 24 September 2001 219 days Karnataka High Court
19 Justice P. K. Balasubramanyan 5 December 2001 10 March 2003 1 year, 95 days Kerala High Court
20 Justice Sujit Barman Roy 9 April 2003 21 January 2007 3 years, 287 days Gauhati High Court
21 Justice A. K. Ganguly 2 March 2007 18 May 2008 1 year, 77 days Calcutta High Court Rameshwar Thakur
22 Justice B. S. Chauhan 16 July 2008 10 May 2009 298 days Allahabad High Court Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare
23 Justice Bilal Nazki 14 November 2009 17 November 2009 3 days High Court of Jammu and Kashmir
24 Justice V. G. Gopala Gowda 25 March 2010 23 December 2012 2 years, 273 days Karnataka High Court
25 Justice C. Nagappan 27 February 2013 18 September 2013 203 days Madras High Court
26 Justice A. K. Goel 12 October 2013 6 July 2014 267 days Punjab and Haryana High Court S. C. Jamir
27 Justice Amitava Roy 6 August 2014 26 February 2015 204 days Gauhati High Court
28 Justice D. H. Waghela 4 June 2015 14 February 2016 255 days Gujarat High Court
29 Justice Vineet Saran 26 February 2016 6 August 2018 2 years, 161 days Allahabad High Court
30 Justice K. S. Jhaveri 12 August 2018 4 January 2020 1 year, 145 days Gujarat High Court Ganeshi Lal
31 Justice Mohammad Rafiq 27 April 2020 3 January 2021 251 days Rajasthan High Court
32 Justice S. Muralidhar 4 January 2021 7 August 2023 2 years, 215 days Delhi High Court
33 Justice Subhasis Talapatra 8 August 2023 3 October 2023 56 days Tripura High Court
34 Justice C. S. Singh 7 February 2024 19 January 2025 347 days Patna High Court Raghubar Das
35 Justice Harish Tandon 6 March 2025 Incumbent 293 days Calcutta High Court Kambhampati Hari Babu

Judges elevated as Chief Justice

This sections contains list of only those judges elevated as chief justices whose parent high court is Orissa. This includes those judges who, at the time of appointment as chief justice, may not be serving in Orissa High Court but this list does not include judges who at the time of appointment as chief justice were serving in Orissa High Court but does not have Orissa as their Parent High Court.

Name Image Appointed as CJ in HC of Date of appointment Date of retirement[a] Tenure Transferred as CJ to HC of Ref..
As Judge As Chief Justice As Chief Justice As Judge[b]
Bachu Jagannadha Das Orissa 26 July 1948 31 October 1951 3 March 1953[†] 1 year, 124 days 4 years, 226 days -- [3]
Lingaraj Panigrahi Orissa 26 July 1948 4 March 1953 20 March 1956 3 years, 17 days 7 years, 239 days --
Ramaswamy Laxman Narasimham Orissa 26 July 1948 21 March 1956 2 August 1968 12 years, 135 days 20 years, 8 days Patna
Satya Bhusan Barman Orissa 3 February 1958 6 April 1967 30 April 1969 2 years, 25 days 11 years, 87 days --
Gati Krushna Misra Orissa 30 January 1962 1 May 1969 31 October 1975 6 years, 184 days 13 years, 275 days --
Sukanta Kishore Ray Orissa 25 October 1967 13 October 1977 5 November 1980 3 years, 24 days 13 years, 12 days --
Ranganath Misra Orissa 4 July 1969 16 January 1981 14 March 1983[†] 2 years, 58 days 13 years, 254 days --
Jugal Kishore Mohanty Sikkim 12 July 1978 21 January 1986 4 January 1989 2 years, 350 days 10 years, 177 days -- [4]
Braja Nath Misra Sikkim 5 January 1981 20 January 1990 8 November 1992 2 years, 294 days 11 years, 309 days -- [5]
Gopal Ballav Pattanaik Patna 1 June 1983 19 May 1995 10 September 1995[†] 115 days 12 years, 102 days -- [6]
Deba Priya Mohapatra Allahabad 18 November 1983 16 February 1996 8 December 1998[†] 2 years, 296 days 15 years, 21 days --
Arijit Pasayat Kerala 20 March 1989 20 September 1999 18 October 2001[†] 2 years, 29 days 12 years, 213 days Delhi
Radha Krishna Patra Sikkim 22 June 1992 9 July 2003 23 November 2004 1 year, 138 days 12 years, 155 days --
Ananga Kumar Patnaik Chhattisgarh 13 January 1994 14 March 2005 16 November 2009[†] 4 years, 248 days 15 years, 308 days Madhya Pradesh
Prafulla Kumar Mishra Patna 17 January 1996 12 August 2009 16 September 2009 36 days 13 years, 243 days --
Dipak Misra Patna 17 January 1996 23 December 2009 9 October 2011[†] 1 year, 291 days 15 years, 266 days Delhi
Laxmi Kanta Mohapatra Manipur 16 January 1999 10 July 2014 9 June 2016 1 year, 336 days 17 years, 146 days --
Pradip Kumar Mohanty Jharkhand 7 March 2002 24 March 2017 9 June 2017 78 days 15 years, 95 days --
Indrajit Mahanty Rajasthan 31 March 2006 6 October 2019 10 November 2022 3 years, 36 days 16 years, 225 days Tripura [7]
Sanjaya Kumar Mishra Jharkhand 7 October 2009 20 February 2023 28 December 2023 312 days 14 years, 83 days -- [8]
Bidyut Ranjan Sarangi Jharkhand 20 June 2013 5 July 2024 19 July 2024 15 days 11 years, 30 days -- [9]
  1. ^ this inlcudes date of resignation, death and Elevation to supreme court
  2. ^ also includes tenure as Chief Justice

Judges elevated to Supreme Court of India

This section includes the list of only those judges whose parent high court was Orissa. This includes those judges who, at the time of elevation to Supreme Court of India, may not be serving in Orissa High Court but this list does not include judges who at the time of elevation were serving in Orissa High Court but does not have Orissa as their Parent High Court.

# Name of the Judge Image Date of Appointment Date of Retirement Tenure Immediately preceding office
In Parent High Court In Supreme Court In High Court(s) In Supreme Court Total tenure[a]
1 Bachu Jagannadha Das 26 July 1948 9 March 1953 26 July 1958 4 years, 226 days 5 years, 140 days 10 years, 1 day 2nd CJ of Orissa HC
2 Ranganath Misra 4 July 1969 15 March 1983 24 November 1991 13 years, 254 days 8 years, 255 days 22 years, 144 days 10th CJ of Orissa HC
3 Radha Charan Patnaik 18 September 1981 3 December 1991 30 May 1992[†] 10 years, 76 days 180 days 10 years, 256 days Judge of Orissa HC
4 Gopal Ballav Pattanaik 1 June 1983 11 September 1995 18 December 2002 12 years, 102 days 7 years, 99 days 19 years, 201 days 27th CJ of Patna HC
5 Deba Priya Mohapatra 18 November 1983 9 December 1998 2 August 2002 15 years, 21 days 3 years, 237 days 18 years, 258 days 35th CJ of Allahabad HC
6 Arijit Pasayat 20 March 1989 19 October 2001 10 May 2009 12 years, 213 days 7 years, 204 days 20 years, 52 days 20th CJ of Delhi HC
7 Ananga Kumar Patnaik 13 January 1994 17 November 2009 2 June 2014 15 years, 308 days 4 years, 198 days 20 years, 141 days 19th CJ of Madhya Pradesh HC
8 Dipak Misra 17 January 1996 10 October 2011 2 October 2018 15 years, 266 days 6 years, 358 days 22 years, 259 days 26th CJ of Delhi HC
  1. ^ Includes both tenure as High Court Judge as well as Supreme Court Judge

References

  1. ^ "Annual Report 2022" (PDF). www.orissahighcourt.nic.in. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
  2. ^ "Museum of Justice thrown open to public in Cuttack". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
  3. ^ National Informatics Centre (NIC, Orissa). "Former Chief Justices | Orissa High Court, Cuttack". www.orissahighcourt.nic.in. Archived from the original on 18 October 2025. Retrieved 22 December 2025.
  4. ^ "Profile : J. K. Mohanty".
  5. ^ National Informatics Centre (NIC, Orissa). "Former Judge | Orissa High Court, Cuttack". www.orissahighcourt.nic.in. Archived from the original on 23 January 2025. Retrieved 22 December 2025.
  6. ^ National Informatics Centre (NIC, Orissa). "Former Judges | Orissa High Court, Cuttack". www.orissahighcourt.nic.in. Archived from the original on 18 October 2025. Retrieved 22 December 2025.
  7. ^ National Informatics Centre (NIC, Orissa). "Former Judge | Orissa High Court, Cuttack". www.orissahighcourt.nic.in. Archived from the original on 1 July 2022. Retrieved 22 December 2025.
  8. ^ "Profile : S. K. Mishra".
  9. ^ "Profile : B. R. Sarangi".
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  4. http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/from-list-of-6-sc-collegium-picks-orissa-chief-justice-for-elevation/
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