JUDGMENT

S. K. SAHOO, J. - Why everybody wants a house of his own? It is not just a basic need of a human being, a primal urge or just a place made of four walls and a roof thereon but a place where he lives with his family safely, secured and healthy. It gives him comfort, peace and stability, to imagine things in a better manner and to act for the goodness of the society and the nation. Charles Dickens quotes, “Charity begins at home and justice begins next door”.

This case depicts the attempts made by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited Housing Committee, Koraput Division, Sunabeda (hereafter ‘HAL Housing Committee’) to bring a housing project at Bhubaneswar for the employees of HAL and the alleged misappropriation, cheating, forgery committed by the appellants in not fulfilling the terms and conditions of the agreement executed between the parties for such purpose.

The appellants have filed this appeal under section 13 of the Odisha Protection of Interests (in Financial Establishments) Act, 2011 (hereafter ‘OPID Act’) challenging the impugned order dated 23.11.2015 passed by the learned Presiding Officer, Designated Court, OPID Act, Cuttack in C.T. Case No. 07 of 2014 in rejecting t