Reason: Authentication Location: OHC, Cuttack

Date: 08-Sep-2025 17:54:57

IN THE HIGH COURT OF ORISSA AT CUTTACK

WP(C) No.21593 of 2014

(In the matter of an application under Article 226 and 227 of the

Constitution of India)

Sanjaya Kumar Panigrahi …. Petitioner

-versus-

State of Odisha, represented through its Commissioner-cum-

Secretary, Higher Education … Opposite Parties

Department and Others

Advocate(s) appeared in this case:-

For Petitioner : Mr. A.K. Mohanty, Advocate

For Opp. Parties : Ms. B.L. Tripathy, ASC

CORAM: JUSTICE B.P. ROUTRAY

JUDGMENT

3^rd September, 2025

B.P. Routray, J.

1. Heard Mr. A.K. Mohanty, learned counsel for the Petitioner

and Ms. B.L. Tripathy, learned ASC for State.

2. The Petitioner served as Lecturer in Political Science since 1^st June, 1992 in Biju Pattnaik (Junior) College of Education, Govindapalli in the district of Malkangiri (hereinafter referred as ‘the

Reason: Authentication Location: OHC, Cuttack Date: 08-Sep-2025 17:54:57 College’), and subsequently discharged the duties as Principal-in- charge-cum-Secretary of said College in the year 2014. While serving as such, the Sub-Collector, Malkangiri in the capacity of President of Governing Body of the College put the