Advocates:
['M/S S P MISRA', '', 'B S PANIGRAHI', 'S MISHRA', 'S K SAHOO', 'RENUKA D PRIYANKA']

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF ORISSA AT CUTTACK

W.P.(C) No.11781 OF 2013

Brajakishore Prusty

….

Petitioner

Mr. Soumya Mishra, Advocate

-versus-

The Member, Board of Revenue,

Odisha, Cuttack and others

….

Opp. Parties

Mr. Sarojananda Mishra,

Additional Government Advocate

CORAM:

JUSTICE K.R.MOHAPATRA

Order No.

ORDER

21.03.2022

23.

1.

This matter is taken up through hybrid mode.

2.

The Petitioner in this writ petition seeks to challenge the

order dated 12^th April, 2013 (Annexure-8) passed in O.S.S. Case

No.68 of 2012 filed by the Petitioner under Section 32 of the Odisha

Survey and Settlement Act, 1958 (for short, ‘the OSS Act’), wherein

learned Member, Board of Revenue, Odisha, Cuttack held that in

absence of confirmation by the Board of Revenue under Section 5(i)

of the Odisha Estate Abolition Act, 1951 (for short, ‘the OEA Act’),

the orders passed by the O.E.A. Collector in O.E.A. Case Nos.5447

and 5449 of 1976 in favour of the lessees are illegal and it amounts

to usurping the power of Board of Revenue by the O.E.A. Collector

and dismissed th