The Orissa High Court granted bail to an undertrial, incarcerated for about five months in a criminal case, on the condition of planting 100 trees and cleaning hospital rooms on a daily basis for a month.
“Loss of human life can never be compensated by bringing back a dead young man to life”.
The High Court expressed deep concern over the mysterious disappearance of a newborn at the State’s premier government-run health institute.
A single bench of Justice S K Panigrahi while refusing interference in the government’s policy of Aadhaar-PAN linkage of bank accounts said “while concerns regarding data security and privacy are acknowledged, they do not outweigh the compelling need for regulatory oversight in the securities market”.
The Orissa High Court has come to the rescue of a tribal family in the state’s Mayurbhanj district amid reports of family members being ostracised by local settlers, denied access to public facilities for almost two decades, and restrained from performing obsequies of their loved ones.
The Orissa High Court has directed the state government to file a detailed report through an affidavit on fire safety conditions in both the private and government-run healthcare institutes.
A Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Arindam Sinha and Justice M.S.Sahoo adjourned the matter to 12 February while hearing a petition on Wednesday by Pinakpani Mohanty, a resident of Odisha’s Cuttack district.
The accused students pursuing their graduation course had perpetrated the crime on 28 December last year in Cuttack city.
The Orissa High Court exercising judicial restraint and playing a balancing role commuted the death sentence awarded to nine condemned convicts for perpetrating a witchcraft-related triple murder more than eight years back to imprisonment for the rest of their life.
The alleged misuse of District Mineral Foundation (DMF) in the mineral rich Keonjhar district has come under judicial scrutiny with Orissa High Court directing State’s Chief Secretary to probe into the alleged irregularities.
