Victim -Cum- Informant v. State of Odisha

Orissa HC8 Jan 2026CRLMC/88/2026

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What is this about?

CRLMC No.88 of 2026; High Court of Orissa at Cuttack; order dated 08.01.2026; Justice Aditya Kumar Mohapatra; Victim-cum-Informant v. State of Odisha; application converted to criminal writ petition; re-registration before appropriate assigned Bench; urgent/immediate listing; procedural conversion, merits not addressed; no statutes or cases cited.

What did the court decide?

Application ordered to be converted into a criminal writ petition, re-registered and placed before the appropriate assigned Bench; in view of the urgency involved, to be listed immediately before the assigned Bench. No relief adjudicated on merits. ¶¶19

Victim -Cum- Informant Vs State of Odisha — Orissa HC (2026) — LawSathi Research

What the court decided

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Outcome

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Issue for consideration

Whether the present application (CRLMC) is the proper procedural vehicle for the Petitioner's prayer, or whether the Petitioner should have approached this Court by filing a criminal writ petition.

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Court's answer

The Court held that the Petitioner should have approached this Court by filing a criminal writ petition rather than the present application.

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Ratio / Principle

On the request of learned counsel for the Petitioner, the office was directed to convert the application to a criminal writ petition, re-register it and place it before the appropriate assigned Bench.

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Key takeaways

Taking into consideration the urgency involved in the matter, the Court directed that the matter be listed immediately before the assigned Bench (direction reconstructed from a partially corrupted paragraph; only a short fragment verifiable).ratio¶¶22

Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

High Court of Orissa at Cuttack — CRLMC No.88 of 2026, order dated 08.01.2026 (Aditya Kumar Mohapatra, J.). An application filed by the Victim-cum-Informant (represented by Adv. Susanta Sekhar Parida) against the State of Odisha (Mr. S.K. Parhi, ASC) was taken up in Hybrid mode. On close scrutiny of the prayer, the Court held that the Petitioner should have approached the Court by filing a criminal writ petition. On counsel's request, the office was directed to convert the application into a criminal writ petition, re-register it and place it before the appropriate assigned Bench; considering the urgency involved, the matter was to be listed immediately before the assigned Bench. Purely a procedural-conversion order: no substantive issue decided, no statute or precedent cited, no quantum involved.

Victim -Cum- Informant v. State of Odisha

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