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IN THE HIGH COURT OF ORISSA AT CUTTACK CRLMP No.418 of 2026

An application under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India.

Debi Prasanna Pattanaik @ Debi Prasad …. Petitioner Pattnaik -versus-

1.State of Odisha

2.The Director General of Police, Cuttack

3.The Commissioner of Police, Bhubaneswar

4.The Deputy Commissioner of Police, Bhubaneswar

5.The IIC, Dhauli Police Station, …. Opposite Parties Bhubaneswar

Advocates appeared in this case through Hybrid Mode :

For Petitioner : Mr. Rabi Narayan Mohanty, Advocate

For Opposite Parties : Mr. S.K. Rout, ASC CORAM:

HON’BLE MISS JUSTICE SAVITRI RATHO ………………………………………………….……………………

Date of Hearing: 08.04.2026 :: Date of Judgment: 30.04.2026 ………………………………………………………………………

Savitri Ratho, J. This CRLMP has been filed for a direction to the

Opposite Parties No.4 and 5 to provide Police protection to the Petitioner to enter into his landed property situated at Mouza-

Saradeipur.

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2. The Petitioner has alleged that he and his family are the joint owners of landed property covered under Khata No.251/21, 251/1214 and 251/79 in Mouza-Saradeipur. He wanted to sell the aforesaid properties to one Raghunath Sahoo, for which the consideration amount was mutually fixed at Rs.11,20,00,000/-(Rupees Eleven Crores and Twenty Lakhs only), out of which, said Raghunath Sahoo had initially paid an advance amount of Rs.40,00,000/-(Rupees forty lakhs only) upon a money receipt dated 31.12.2025 and thereafter paid an amount of Rs.60,30,000/-(Rupees Sixty lakhs and thirty thousand only) through online transactions on different dates to the Petitioner and other shareholders of the said property. After payment of the total advance amount of Rs. 1,00,30,000/-(Rupees one crore and thirty thousand only), Raghunath Sahoo neither showed interest to purchase the aforesaid property nor paid the balance consideration amount to the Petitioner. He started playing hide and seek with the Petitioner and his family members for which the Petitioner and his family members returned the entire advance money of Rs.1,00,30,000/- (Rupees one crore and thirty thousand only) to the bank account of said Raghunath Sahoo on different dates. Thereafter, the Petitioner along with his family members tried to enter into their aforesaid landed properties, but the said Raghunath Sahoo being accompanied with some

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hooligans restrained them illegally from entering into their landed property holding deadly weapons and threatened them, for which the Petitioner and his family members being the lawful owners of the aforesaid landed properties could not enter into their landed property. On 25.02.2026, the Petitioner and his family members got the information that said Raghunath Sahoo accompanied with some hooligans had illegally entered into their land and was digging earth by a JCB Machine to construct boundary wall and when the Petitioner and his family members reached there and tried to resist them, they were assaulted and threatened with dire consequence. Sister of the Petitioner appeared at Dhauli P.S and filed a written report against Raghunath Sahoo, which was registered as Dhauli P.S case No.37 dated 26.02.2026 for commission of offences under Sections 324(2)/ 115(2)/ 351(2)/ 3(5) of BNS. On 01.03.2026, the Petitioner went to the Dhauli Police Station and requested that Police protection be provided to enable them to enter into their land, but the concerned Police refused to do so, for which the Petitioner sent a written representation to the IIC, Dhauli P.S. by post on 02.03.2026. This has been received by them on dated 11/03/2026, but no action was taken for which so the Petitioner ventilated his grievance to the DCP, Bhubaneswar (Opposite Party No.4) through a written representation

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sent through speed post on 23/03/2026., but the Opp. party No.4 also

has not taken any action.

SUBMISSIONS

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