Orissa High Court tells State govt to implement SC course

By Express News Service

CUTTACK: The Orissa High Court on Tuesday directed the Additional Chief Secretary within the Home division to implement the Supreme Court’s course to add copies of FIRs on the police web site.
The difficulty was raised in a illustration by Babaji Sahoo, a social activist, on June 25, 2021.

The Supreme Court had directed all states and union territories to add FIRs on their web sites, besides these that are delicate in nature inside 24 hours of registration at police stations on September 7, 2016.

 In the illustration, Sahoo had sought implementation of the Supreme Court order for enabling the accused to have the basic liberty as protected by the Constitution of India with the intention to avail of the immunities below the Criminal Procedure Code.

When there was no response and the Supreme Court course was allegedly not carried out within the State, Sahoo filed the PIL within the High Court on August 24, 2022. Advocate Soma Patnaik made submissions on the petitioner’s behalf when the PIL got here up on Tuesday. However, the courtroom disposed of the petition with out taking it up for adjudication. 

The division bench of S Muralidhar and Justice Chittaranjan Dash mentioned, “The petitioner’s representation dated June 25, 2021, shall be examined by the Additional Chief Secretary Home (in the state of Odisha) and a reasoned order shall be passed thereon not later than December 2022 and will be communicated to the petitioner within a week thereafter.”

CUTTACK: The Orissa High Court on Tuesday directed the Additional Chief Secretary within the Home division to implement the Supreme Court’s course to add copies of FIRs on the police web site.
The difficulty was raised in a illustration by Babaji Sahoo, a social activist, on June 25, 2021.

The Supreme Court had directed all states and union territories to add FIRs on their web sites, besides these that are delicate in nature inside 24 hours of registration at police stations on September 7, 2016.

 In the illustration, Sahoo had sought implementation of the Supreme Court order for enabling the accused to have the basic liberty as protected by the Constitution of India with the intention to avail of the immunities below the Criminal Procedure Code.

When there was no response and the Supreme Court course was allegedly not carried out within the State, Sahoo filed the PIL within the High Court on August 24, 2022. Advocate Soma Patnaik made submissions on the petitioner’s behalf when the PIL got here up on Tuesday. However, the courtroom disposed of the petition with out taking it up for adjudication. 

The division bench of S Muralidhar and Justice Chittaranjan Dash mentioned, “The petitioner’s representation dated June 25, 2021, shall be examined by the Additional Chief Secretary Home (in the state of Odisha) and a reasoned order shall be passed thereon not later than December 2022 and will be communicated to the petitioner within a week thereafter.”