Rourkela Pvt. Bus Owners Association, Rourkela v. State of Odisha
Case brief
What is this about?
CRLMP No. 421 of 2024, High Court of Orissa at Cuttack, decided 04.04.2024 by Justice V. Narasingh. Petition by Rourkela Pvt. Bus Owners’ Association (counsel: P. Mohanty) against State of Odisha and others (counsel: H.K. Panigrahi, ASC) alleging police inaction in Rourkela Plantsite P.S. Case No.0111 of 2023 dated 24.03.2023 affecting day-to-day public transport operation. Court held petitioner not the informant, declined plenary jurisdiction, disposed of the CRLMP with liberty to make a representation before the Superintendent of Police, Rourkela. Keywords: inaction, police investigation, FIR, public transport, representation, Superintendent of Police Rourkela, plenary jurisdiction, CRLM disposed of.
What did the court decide?
CRLMP disposed of; liberty granted to the Petitioner to ventilate its grievance before Opposite Party No.4–Superintendent of Police, Rourkela by way of a representation, to be considered in accordance with law with expediency, keeping in view the public cause.