IN THE HIGH COURT OF ORISSA AT CUTTACK W.P.(C) No.28753 OF 2025 Biswanat h Sahoo …. Petitioner Mr. Debidutta Mohapatra, Advocate -vers us-

State of Odisha and Others …. Opp. Parties Mr.Siba Narayan Biswal, Additional Standing Counsel Mr. Pronoy Mohanty, Advocate (For O.P. No.2 and 3)

CORAM:

JUSTICE K.R. MOHAPATRA JUSTICE SAVITRI RATHO

ORDER

Order No. 11.12.2025

03. 1. This matter is taken up through hybrid mode. 2. The Petitioner, in this Writ Petition prays for a direction to protect his possession over the space where he is running his business as a street vendor and is earning livelihood.

3. Mr. Mohapatra, learned counsel for the Petitioner submits that the Petitioner being a street vendor was issued with a certificate of street vending under Para-7 (1) of the Scheme prepared under the Street Vending (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014 (for brevity, ‘the Act’).

4. Pursuant to the certificate of the street vending under Annexure-1 granted on 1^st April, 2020 by the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (for brevity, ‘the BMC’), the Petitioner is running his beetle shop near Magnetix Chhak, opposite to Big Bazar. It is submitted that though the Petitioner wa