CORRECTED COPY IN THE HIGH COURT OF ORISSA AT CUTTACK BLAPL NO.13706 of 2025 (In the matter of application under Section 483 of BNSS, 2023).

Subash Mohapatra … Petitioner -versus-

State of Odisha … Opposite Party For Petitioner : Mr. N.K. Singh, Advocate For Opposite Party : Mr. P.S. Nayak, Specially engaged counsel CORAM:

JUSTICE G. SATAPATHY DATE OF HEARING & JUDGMENT:12.05.2026(ORAL)

G. Satapathy, J.

1. This is an application U/S.483 of the BNSS by the petitioner for grant of bail in connection with Lalbag PS Case No. 387 of 2025 corresponding to GR Case No.853 of 2025 pending in the Court of learned SDJM(S), Cuttack for commission of offence punishable U/Ss. 319(2)/318(4)/336(2)/340(2) of BNS.

2. The allegation against the petitioner is that the petitioner having no license issued from any Bar Council to practice in any Court has posed himself as a lawyer and conducted an election petition before this Court by impersonating himself as an advocate, but later on the enrolment number as furnished by the petitioner in the Vakalatnama was found to be in the name of Gitanjali Sharma. This is the basis on which the FIR was lodged in this case.

3. In the course of hearing Mr. Nitesh Kumar Sin