Orissa High Court

High Court of Orissa
ଓଡ଼ିଶା ଉଚ୍ଚ ନ୍ୟାୟାଳୟ
Interactive map of High Court of Orissa
20°27′54″N85°51′32″E / 20.4650°N 85.8589°E / 20.4650; 85.8589
Established	26 July 1948;77 years ago (1948-07-26)
Jurisdiction	Odisha
Location	Cuttack, Odisha
Coordinates	20°27′54″N85°51′32″E / 20.4650°N 85.8589°E / 20.4650; 85.8589
Composition method	Presidential with confirmation of Chief Justice of India and Governor of respective state
Authorised by	Constitution of India
Appeals to	Supreme Court of India
Judge term length	Mandatory retirement at 62 years of age
Number of positions	33 (24 Permanent + 9 Additional)
Website	www.orissahighcourt.nic.in
Chief Justice
Currently	Harish Tandon
Since	26 March 2025

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.

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	Bihar and Orissa 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	High Court of Jammu and Kashmir	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	Madras 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	271 days	Calcutta High Court	Kambhampati Hari Babu

Judges elevated to Supreme Court of India

Currently serving

#	Name of the Judge	Image	Date of Appointment as Judge	Date of elevation to Supreme Court	Date of Retirement	Tenure			Immediately preceding office
						As HC Judge	As Supreme Court Judge	Total tenure (including both SC and HC)
1	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--

Former Judges

#	Name of the Judge	Image	Date of Appointment as Judge	Date of elevation to Supreme Court	Date of Retirement	Tenure			Immediately preceding office	Remarks
						As HC Judge	As Supreme Court Judge	Total tenure (including both SC and HC)
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	21st Chief Justice of India
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	Died in office
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	32nd Chief Justice of India
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	45th Chief Justice of India

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.

External links

1. Jurisdiction and Seats of Indian High Courts
2. Breaking News and Recent Updates from the Orissa High Court
3. Orissa High Court website
4. http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/from-list-of-6-sc-collegium-picks-orissa-chief-justice-for-elevation/