Orissa High Court Confers Senior Designation On 13 Advocates

Jyoti Prakash Dutta

16 Jan 2025 4:49 AM

  • Orissa High Court Confers Senior Designation On 13 Advocates

    In exercise of the powers conferred under Section 16 of the Advocates Act read with Rule 7(1) of the High Court of Orissa (Designation of Senior Advocates) Rules, 2019, the Orissa High Court on Wednesday (January 15) designated the following 13 Advocates as Senior Advocates –Sanjay Kumar AcharyaAnup Kumar BoseBansidhar BaugBibekananda BhuyanBhabani Sankar TripathySusanta Kumar DashKamal...

    In exercise of the powers conferred under Section 16 of the Advocates Act read with Rule 7(1) of the High Court of Orissa (Designation of Senior Advocates) Rules, 2019, the Orissa High Court on Wednesday (January 15) designated the following 13 Advocates as Senior Advocates –

    1. Sanjay Kumar Acharya
    2. Anup Kumar Bose
    3. Bansidhar Baug
    4. Bibekananda Bhuyan
    5. Bhabani Sankar Tripathy
    6. Susanta Kumar Dash
    7. Kamal Behari Panda
    8. Amitav Das
    9. Dayananda Mohapatra
    10. Gopal Kumar Agarwal
    11. Bigyan Kumar Sharma
    12. Bibhu Prasad Tripathy
    13. Aditya Narayan Dash

    Pertinent to mention that Advocate Bansidhar Baug had earlier challenged withholding of his candidature by the Permanent Committee for designation of Senior Advocates constituted as per Rule 3 of the 2019 Rules. The High Court had granted him relief in September last year and had ruled that the Permanent Committee has no jurisdiction to withhold/eliminate/defer candidature of any Advocate without submitting his name to the Full Court for consideration.

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