Sanatan Patra v. Sachidananda Nayak
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Keywords: criminal revision; dismissal for non-prosecution; petitioner absent; none appears; service of notice; 2nd National Lok Adalat; Sessions Judge Jagatsinghpur; Criminal Appeal No.17 of 2011; J.M.F.C.(P) Kujanga; I.C.C Case No.34 of 2009; CRLREV No.984 of 2013; Sanatan Patra v. Sachidananda Nayak; High Court of Orissa; S.S. Mishra. Summary: The High Court of Orissa at Cuttack, by order dated 18.05.2026 (Sibo Sankar Mishra, J.), dismissed CRLREV No.984 of 2013 for non-prosecution. The revision, pending since 2013, challenged the Sessions Judge, Jagatsinghpur judgment dated 19.08.2013 in Criminal Appeal No.17 of 2011, which had been passed against the J.M.F.C.(P), Kujanga judgment dated 24.05.2011 in I.C.C Case No.34 of 2009. After listing before the 2nd National Lok Adalat and despite service of notice, nobody appeared for the petitioner, whom the court concluded was no longer interested in prosecuting the matter. No substantive issue was argued or decided, and no statute or precedent was cited.