IN THE HIGH COURT OF ORISSA AT CUTTACK W.A. No. 1381 of 2025 State of Odisha and Others …. Appellants Mr. S. B. Panda, AGA -versus-

Tapan Kumar Sahu …. Respondent Ms. B. K. Pattanaik, Advocate CORAM:

JUSTICE KRISHNA SHRIPAD DIXIT JUSTICE CHITTARANJAN DASH

ORDER

Order No. 17.02.2026

01. I.A. No.35 65 of 2025 There is a delay of 217 days in filing the writ appeal. An application, being I.A. No. 3565 of 2023, supported by an affidavit, accompanies the memorandum of appeal, wherein the delay has been plausibly explained. Condonation of the delay would not prejudice the case of the other side, inasmuch as the matter would be heard on merits, however, refusal to condone the delay would result in ousting the Appellants from the Court, which a Court exercising writ appellate jurisdiction ought not to do.

In the above circumstances, application in I.A. No. 3565 of 2025 having been favoured, delay in filing the Writ Appeal is condoned.

(Krishna Shripad Dixit)

Judge (Chittaranjan Dash)

Judge W.A. No. 1381 of 2025 The State and its Officials are preferring this appeal aggrieved by the learned Single Judge’s Common Order dated 04.12.2024, whereby Respondent’s W.P.(C) No.27897 of 2021 having been favour