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Santosh Kumar Sahoo v. State of Odisha

Orissa HC23 Feb 2026CRLMP/200/2026

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What is this about?

Orissa High Court, Cuttack; CRLMP No. 200 of 2026; Savitri Ratho (Judge); Santosh Kumar Sahoo; State of Odisha; Director General of Police Cuttack; Superintendent of Police Cuttack; IIC Bhadreswar Police Station; Bhadreswar P.S. Case No.132 of 2025; direction to investigate; non-cooperation of petitioner with investigation; undertaking to appear within ten days; CRLMP disposed on 23.02.2026.

What did the court decide?

Conditional direction: if the petitioner appears before the Bhadreswar Police Station within ten days as undertaken, Opposite Party No.4 (IIC) shall proceed with the investigation of Bhadreswar P.S. Case No.132 of 2025. ¶28

Santosh Kumar Sahoo Vs State of Odisha — Orissa HC (2026) — LawSathi Research

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Issue for consideration

Whether the Opposite Party Nos.3 and 4 (Superintendent of Police, Cuttack and IIC, Bhadreswar Police Station) should be directed to take up the investigation of Bhadreswar P.S. Case No.132 of 2025 and take appropriate action against the culprits. +1 more

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Court's answer

This Court held that if the Petitioner appears before the Bhadreswar Police Station as undertaken (within ten days, per his counsel's submission recorded by the Court), the Opposite Party No.4 (IIC, Bhadreswar Police Station) shall proceed with the investigation of Bhadreswar P.S. Case No.132 of 2025.

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Ratio / Principle

This Court recorded the petitioner's undertaking, submitted through his counsel, that he would cooperate with the investigation and appear before the Bhadreswar Police Station within a period of ten days; the Court's conditional direction rests on this undertaking.

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Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

Santosh Kumar Sahoo v. State of Odisha and others — CRLMP No. 200 of 2026, High Court of Orissa at Cuttack (Miss Justice Savitri Ratho), decided 23.02.2026. The petitioner sought a direction to Opposite Party Nos.3 (Superintendent of Police, Cuttack) and 4 (IIC, Bhadreswar Police Station) to take up the investigation of Bhadreswar P.S. Case No.132 of 2025 and take appropriate action against the culprits. The learned Additional Standing Counsel produced the instructions dated 22.02.2026 of the IIC, Bhadreswar Police Station, stating that the petitioner had not cooperated with the investigation for reasons best known to him, for which proper steps towards investigation could not be taken. Counsel for the petitioner undertook that he would cooperate with the investigation and appear before the Bhadreswar Police Station within ten days. Holding that, if the petitioner appeared as undertaken, Opposite Party No.4 shall proceed with the investigation, the Court disposed of the CRLMP with that observation.

Santosh Kumar Sahoo v. State of Odisha

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