Ranjan Kumar Nayak v. State of Odisha
Case brief
What is this about?
Orissa High Court, Cuttack — CRLMC No.4586 of 2025; Ranjan Kumar Nayak v. State Of Odisha; Aditya Kumar Mohapatra, J.; order dated 10.11.2025. Quashing application regarding criminal proceeding arising out of Reamal P.S. Case No.59 of 2011 / C.T. Case No.202 of 2011 (J.M.F.C., Reamal) disposed of as NOT PRESSED with liberty to file a discharge petition at the charge-framing stage. Surrender/bail directions: surrender before J.M.F.C., Reamal within 21 working days; bail considered in the first hour on materials on record; if rejected, higher forum to entertain in the second hour and dispose the same day maintaining parity, if applicable; Case Diary to concerned courts; records transmission to higher forum at Petitioner's cost. Keywords: quashing, not pressed, discharge petition, framing of charge, surrender, bail, first hour, second hour, parity, J.M.F.C. Reamal, C.T. Case.
What did the court decide?
Application disposed of as not pressed with liberty as prayed for (counsel reserving liberty to raise the point at the time of framing of charge by filing a discharge petition); liberty to surrender before the learned J.M.F.C., Reamal within 21 working days and move for bail, with first-hour consideration by the Magistrate strictly on the materials on record and, if rejected, second-hour consideration and same-day disposal by the higher forum maintaining parity, if applicable; Case Diary to be made available to the concerned courts and records transmissible to the higher forum at the Petitioner's cost, if applied for.