Location: ORISSA HIGH COURT, CUTTACK Date: 14-May-2025 18:57:31 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ORISSA AT CUTTACK W.P.(C) No.5653 of 2025 along with W.P.(C) No.31627 of 2024 (In the matters of Petitions under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India, 1950).

M/s. Pratistha Engineering …. Petitioner(s)

Limited, Bhubaneswar (in both the Writ Petitions)

-versus-

State Bank of India & Ors. …. Opposite Party (s)

Advocates appeared in the case through Hybrid Mode:

For Petitioner(s) : Mr. Ramachandra Panigrahy, Adv. For Opposite Party (s) : Mr. Jagabandhu Sahoo, Sr. Adv.

Along with Mr. Dillip Kumar Mohapatra, Adv.

CORAM:

DR. JUSTICE S.K. PANIGRAHI DATE OF HEARING:-13.03.2025 DATE OF JUDGMENT:-09.05.2025 Dr. S.K. Panigrahi, J.

1. Since common questions of fact and law are involved in the above-

mentioned Writ Petitions, the same were heard together and are being disposed of by this common judgment. However, this Court finds it Location: ORISSA HIGH COURT, CUTTACK Date: 14-May-2025 18:57:31 appropriate to treat W.P.(C) No.3167 of 2024 as the leading case for proper adjudication of these matters.

2. The Petitioner in W.P.(C) No.3167 of 2024 is challenging the letter dated

13th November, 2024 issued by the O