The Odisha High Court is the High Court for the Indian state of Odisha.
The then Bengal Presidency was a vast province including present day Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, and West Bengal. It was difficult to administratively manage such a vast area, inhabited by people speaking in different languages and having different traditions. Administrative exigencies required separation of such areas which originally did not from part of Bengal. So, new province of Bihar and Orissa was formed on 22 March 1912. However, the said new province of Bihar and Bihar and Orissa was under the jurisdiction of Calcutta High Court.
On 9 February 1916, in exercise of the powers under Section 113 of the Government of India Act, 1915, the King of England issued letters of patent constituting High Court of Patna. Orissa was placed under the jurisdiction of Patna High Court. Although, on 18 May 1916, Circuit Court of Patna High Court for Orissa held its first sitting at Cuttack.
On 1 April 1936, Orissa was made a separate province but no separate High Court was provided for it. The Government of India agreed to create a new High Court, and for that purpose the Government of India issued the Orissa High Court Order, 1948, under the Section 229(1) of the Government of India Act, 1935, on 30 April 1948. Finally, on 26 July 1948, Orissa High Court was formally inaugurated.[citation needed]
The seat of the court is Cuttack. The court has a sanctioned judge strength of 27.
List of Sitting Judges in Odisha High Court (Seniority Wise)
As on 1st January 2023, 5 positions are vacant.
| # | Chief Justice | Portrait | Date of Appointment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Justice S. Muralidhar(Chief Justice) | 4 January 2021 | |
| 2 | Justice Jaswant Singh | 8 October 2021 | |
| 3 | Justice Subhasis Talapatra | 10 June 2022 | |
| 4 | Justice Bidyut Ranjan Sarangi | 20 June 2013 | |
| 5 | Justice Arindam Sinha | 8 October 2021 | |
| 6 | Justice Debabrata Dash | 29 November 2013 | |
| 7 | Justice Biswanath Rath | 2 July 2014 | |
| 8 | Justice Sangam Kumar Sahoo | 2 July 2014 | |
| 9 | Justice Krushna Ram Mohapatra | 17 April 2015 | |
| 10 | Justice Bibhu Prasad Routray | 8 November 2019 | |
| 11 | Justice Sanjeeb Kumar Panigrahi | 10 February 2020 | |
| 12 | Justice Savitri Ratho | 11 June 2020 | |
| 13 | Justice Mruganka Sekhar Sahoo | 19 October 2021 | |
| 14 | Justice Radha Krishna Pattanaik | 19 October 2021 | |
| 15 | Justice Sashikanta Mishra | 19 October 2021 | |
| 16 | Justice Aditya Kumar Mohapatra | 5 November 2021 | |
| 17 | Justice V. Narasingh | 14 February 2022 | |
| 18 | Justice Biraja Prasanna Satapathy | 14 February 2022 | |
| 19 | Justice Murahari Sri Raman | 14 February 2022 | |
| 20 | Justice Sanjay Kumar Mishra | 10 June 2022 | |
| 21 | Justice Gourishankar Satapathy | 13 August 2022 | |
| 22 | Justice Chittaranjan Dash | 13 August 2022 | |
| 23 | Vacant | ||
| 24 | Vacant | ||
| 25 | Vacant | ||
| 26 | Vacant | ||
| 27 | Vacant |
List of Chief Justices of Odisha High Court
| # | Chief Justice | Portrait | Term of Office | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Justice Bira Kishore Ray | 26 July 1948 | 30 October 1951 | |
| 2 | Justice B. Jagannadha Das | 31 October 1951 | 3 March 1953 | |
| 3 | Justice Lingaraj Panigrahi | 4 March 1953 | 21 March 1956 | |
| 4 | Justice [[R. L. Narasimham]] | 22 March 1956 | 27 December 1964 | |
| 5 | Justice [[Khaleel Ahmed]] | 18 January 1965 | 5 April 1967 | |
| 6 | Justice Satya Bhusan Barman | 6 April 1967 | 30 April 1969 | |
| 7 | Justice Gati Krushna Misra | 1 May 1969 | 30 October 1975 | |
| 8 | Justice [[Siba Narain Sankar]] | 1 November 1975 | 12 October 1977 | |
| 9 | Justice Sukanta Kishor Ray | 13 October 1977 | 4 November 1980 | |
| 10 | Justice Ranganath Mishra |  |
16 January 1981 | 14 March 1983 |
| 11 | Justice Dambarudhar Pathak | 11 August 1983 | 28 February 1986 | |
| 12 | Justice Hari Lal Agrawal | 1 May 1986 | 31 July 1989 | |
| 13 | Justice B. L.Hansaria | 22 February 1990 | 13 December 1993 | |
| 14 | Justice G. T. Nanavati | 31 January 1994 | 27 September 1994 | |
| 15 | Justice V. A. Mohta | 28 September 1994 | 25 April 1995 | |
| 16 | Jusitce S. N. Phukan | 2 August 1996 | 27 January 1999 | |
| 17 | Justice Biswanath Agrawal | 18 November 1999 | 18 October 2000 | |
| 18 | Justice N. Y. Hanumanthappa | 17 February 2001 | 24 September 2001 | |
| 19 | Justice P. K. Balasubramanyan | 5 December 2001 | 10 March 2003 | |
| 20 | Justice Sujit Barman Roy | 9 April 2003 | 21 January 2007 | |
| 21 | Justice A. K. Ganguly | 2 March 2007 | 18 May 2008 | |
| 22 | Justice B. S. Chauhan | 16 July 2008 | 10 May 2009 | |
| 23 | Justice Bilal Nazki | 14 November 2009 | 17 November 2009 | |
| 24 | Justice V. G. Gopala Gowda | 25 March 2010 | 23 December 2012 | |
| 25 | Justice C. Nagappan | 27 February 2013 | 18 September 2013 | |
| 26 | Justice A. K. Goel |  |
12 October 2013 | 6 July 2014 |
| 27 | Justice Amitava Roy | 06 August 2014 | 26 February 2015 | |
| 28 | Justice D. H. Waghela | 04 June 2015 | 14 February 2016 | |
| 29 | Justice Vineet Saran |  |
26 February 2016 | 6 August 2018 |
| 30 | Justice K. S. Jhaveri | 12 August 2018 | 4 January 2020 | |
| 31 | Justice Mohammad Rafiq | 27 April 2020 | 3 January 2021 | |
| 32 | Justice S. Muralidhar | 4 January 2021 | Incumbent | |
Judges who served as Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of India
- Hon’ble Mr. Justice Ranganath Misra (as 21st Chief Justice of India from 25 September 1990 – 24 November 1991)
- Hon’ble Mr. Justice G.B. Pattanaik (as 32nd Chief Justice of India from 08 November 2002 – 18 December 2002)
- Hon’ble Mr. Justice Dipak Misra (as 45th Chief Justice of India from 28 August 2017 – 02 October 2018)