The tragic triple-train crash at Bahanaga Bazar railway station in Balasore district on June 2, 2023, which claimed the lives of at least 296 people and injured over 1,000, was the result of "composite negligence" by railway authorities responsible for the signal system’s upkeep and maintenance, the Orissa High Court has observed.
The Orissa High Court has expressed displeasure over the Assembly secretary's non-acceptance of summons issued to a sitting MLA in the premises of the House while observing that "the entire issue could have been dealt with in a more reasonable and matured way".
The Orissa High Court on Thursday sought for a development of a dedicated web portal for making jail reforms programmes in the state accessible to the public besides uploading of success and reformative stories of prisoners.
Buckling to mounting pressure amid nationwide outrage, the Odisha Government has ordered a judicial probe into the alleged custodial abuse of a serving Army officer and his fiancée in a Bhubaneswar police station on 15 September.
A single bench of Justice Dr. S.K.Panigrahi while awarding Rs 2 lakh compensation to a man injured in a cylinder blast on 27 September 2021 suggested invigoration of public awareness to avert cylinder blast tragedies.
Judicial Academy in Cuttack on virtual mode laid emphasis on greater inclusion of disabled children in the juvenile justice system.
The Orissa High Court has ordered the sale of an Indonesian ship, anchored at the Paradip port, almost eight months after seizure of cocaine banned substance worth Rs 220 crore from the merchant ship.
The Orissa high court adjudicating an admiralty suit has ordered the ‘arrest’ of Chinese ship MV Zhe Hai 505 on the charge of ‘low supply marine gas oil’ to a trading company.
The Bhandar was last opened for inspection and inventorisation of valuables in 1978.
It’s pertinent to note here that a special vigilance court had sentenced the lawmaker a three-year rigorous imprisonment term.
