Purna Ch.Tripathy v. Union of India andORS.
Case brief
What is this about?
Infructuous writ petition disposed of: W.P.(C ) NO.16071 of 2010, Purna Ch. Tripathy v. Union of India & Others, High Court of Orissa at Cuttack, Justice Biraja Prasanna Satapathy, order dated 08.07.2026. Petition challenged a selection process initiated in 2010; neither petitioner nor opposite party-bank appeared (hybrid-mode hearing); no interim order protected the petitioner; Court held that with efflux of time the writ petition had become infructuous and disposed it of without relief. Keywords: infructuous, efflux of time, stale writ petition, selection process 2010, Union of India, bank, no appearance, disposed of.
What did the court decide?
With efflux of time, and in the absence of any interim order protecting the petitioner's interest, the writ petition challenging the 2010 selection process has become infructuous. ¶¶14