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2026 Supreme(Ori) 106

IN THE HIGH COURT OF ORISSA AT CUTTACK
KRISHNA S.DIXIT, CHITTARANJAN DASH
Manamati Pujari – Appellant
Versus
State of Odisha – Respondent


Advocate Appeared:
For the Appellant : M/s. S.K. Dalai, J. Bhuyan, B. Bhuyan & S. Mahapatra,
Advocates
For the Respondents - Mrs. Suman Pattanayak, Addl. Govt. Advocate

Table of Content
1. challenge to no confidence motion (Para 1)
2. arguments regarding statutory notice requirements (Para 2)
3. defence of notice's sufficiency (Para 3)
4. analysis of notice and evidential links (Para 4)

JUDGMENT :

The Sarpanch of Grama Panchayat is in this Intra-Court appeal for laying a challenge to a learned Single Judge’s order dated 13.10.2025 whereby his W.P.(C) No.4096 of 2025 has been negatived. In that petition, he had, in substance, called in question the proceedings of No Confidence mainly on the ground that the statutory notice was not accompanied by copies of requisition & proposed resolution.

3. Learned AGA appearing for the official respondents resists the appeal making submission in justification of the impugned order and the findings recorded by the learned Single Judge. She contends that the requirement is that the notice should be accompanied by copies of the requisition & proposed resolution; the mode of service pales into insignificance if it is otherwise demonstrated that the Sarpanch received notice & accompaniments from different sources; the postal parcel weighed 20 grams and admittedly it reached hands of the appellant; notice would weigh four o

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