High Court of Orissa
ଓଡ଼ିଶା ଉଚ୍ଚ ନ୍ୟାୟାଳୟ
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20°27′54″N85°51′32″E / 20.4650°N 85.8589°E /20.4650; 85.8589
Established	26 July 1948; 77 years ago (1948-07-26)
Jurisdiction	Odisha
Location	Cuttack,Odisha
Coordinates	20°27′54″N85°51′32″E / 20.4650°N 85.8589°E /20.4650; 85.8589
Composition method	Presidential withconfirmation ofChief Justice of India andGovernor of respective state
Authorised by	Constitution of India
Appeals to	Supreme Court of India
Judge term length	Mandatory retirement at 62 years of age
Number of positions	33 (24 Permanent + 9 Additional)
Website	www.orissahighcourt.nic.in
Chief Justice
Currently	Harish Tandon
Since	26 March 2025

TheOrissa High Court is theHigh Court for theIndianstate ofOdisha.

The thenBengal Presidency was a vast province including present dayAssam,Bihar,Jharkhand,Odisha andWest Bengal. It was difficult to administratively manage such a vast area, inhabited by people speaking different languages and having different traditions. Administrative exigencies required separation of such areas which originally did not form part of Bengal. So, the new province ofBihar and Odisha was formed on 22 March 1912. However, the said new province ofBihar and Odisha was under the jurisdiction of theCalcutta High Court.

On 9 February 1916, in exercise of the powers under Section 113 of theGovernment of India Act, 1915, the King of the United Kingdom issued letters of patent constituting theHigh Court of Patna. Odisha was placed under the jurisdiction of Patna High Court. Although, on 18 May 1916, Circuit Court ofPatna High Court for Odisha held its first sitting atCuttack.

On 1 April 1936,Odisha was made a separate province but no separate High Court was provided for it. The Government of India agreed to create a new High Court, and for that purpose theGovernment of India issued the Odisha High Court Order, 1948, under the Section 229(1) of theGovernment of India Act, 1935, on 30 April 1948. Finally, on 26 July 1948, Odisha High Court was formally inaugurated.[1]

The seat of the court isCuttack. The court had asanctioned judge strength of 27 which stood increased to 33 by the notification dated 2nd February, 2022.^[1]

In an innovative effort,Museum of Justice has been established at, Cuttack inside the historic compound of Barabati Fort, Cuttack.^[2]

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#	Portrait	Chief Justice	Tenure			Parent High Court	Appointer (Governor)
1		Justice Bira Kishore Ray	26 July 1948	30 October 1951	3 years, 96 days	Patna High Court	Asaf Ali
2		Justice B. Jagannadha Das	31 October 1951	3 March 1953	1 year, 123 days	Orissa High Court
3		Justice Lingaraj Panigrahi	4 March 1953	21 March 1956	3 years, 17 days	Orissa High Court	Saiyid Fazl Ali
4		Justice R. L. Narasimham	22 March 1956	27 December 1964	8 years, 280 days	Orissa High Court	P. S. Kumaraswamy Raja
5		Justice Khaleel Ahmed	18 January 1965	5 April 1967	2 years, 77 days	Patna High Court	Ajudhia Nath Khosla
6		Justice Satya Bhusan Barman	6 April 1967	30 April 1969	2 years, 24 days	Orissa High Court
7		Justice G. K. Misra	1 May 1969	30 October 1975	6 years, 182 days	Orissa High Court	Shaukatullah Shah Ansari
8		Justice Siba Narain Sankar	1 November 1975	12 October 1977	1 year, 345 days	Delhi High Court	Akbar Ali Khan
9		Justice S. K. Ray	13 October 1977	4 November 1980	3 years, 22 days	Orissa High Court	Bhagwat Dayal Sharma
10		Justice Ranganath Mishra	16 January 1981	14 March 1983	2 years, 57 days	Orissa High Court	C. M. Poonacha
11		Justice Dambarudhar Pathak	11 August 1983	28 February 1986	2 years, 201 days	Gauhati High Court
12		Justice Hari Lal Agrawal	1 May 1986	31 July 1989	3 years, 91 days	Patna High Court	Bishambhar Nath Pande
13		Justice B. L.Hansaria	22 February 1990	13 December 1993	3 years, 294 days	Gauhati High Court	Yagya Dutt Sharma
14		Justice G. T. Nanavati	31 January 1994	27 September 1994	239 days	Gujarat High Court	B. Satya Narayan Reddy
15		Justice V. A. Mohta	28 September 1994	25 April 1995	209 days	Bombay High Court
16		Jusitce S. N. Phukan	2 August 1996	27 January 1999	2 years, 178 days	Gauhati High Court	Gopala Ramanujam
17		Justice Biswanath Agrawal	18 November 1999	18 October 2000	335 days	Patna High Court	M. M. Rajendran
18		Justice N. Y. Hanumanthappa	17 February 2001	24 September 2001	219 days	Karnataka High Court
19		Justice P. K. Balasubramanyan	5 December 2001	10 March 2003	1 year, 95 days	Kerala High Court
20		Justice Sujit Barman Roy	9 April 2003	21 January 2007	3 years, 287 days	Gauhati High Court
21		Justice A. K. Ganguly	2 March 2007	18 May 2008	1 year, 77 days	Calcutta High Court	Rameshwar Thakur
22		Justice B. S. Chauhan	16 July 2008	10 May 2009	298 days	Allahabad High Court	Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare
23		Justice Bilal Nazki	14 November 2009	17 November 2009	3 days	High Court of Jammu and Kashmir
24		Justice V. G. Gopala Gowda	25 March 2010	23 December 2012	2 years, 273 days	Karnataka High Court
25		Justice C. Nagappan	27 February 2013	18 September 2013	203 days	Madras High Court
26		Justice A. K. Goel	12 October 2013	6 July 2014	267 days	Punjab and Haryana High Court	S. C. Jamir
27		Justice Amitava Roy	6 August 2014	26 February 2015	204 days	Gauhati High Court
28		Justice D. H. Waghela	4 June 2015	14 February 2016	255 days	Gujarat High Court
29		Justice Vineet Saran	26 February 2016	6 August 2018	2 years, 161 days	Allahabad High Court
30		Justice K. S. Jhaveri	12 August 2018	4 January 2020	1 year, 145 days	Gujarat High Court	Ganeshi Lal
31		Justice Mohammad Rafiq	27 April 2020	3 January 2021	251 days	Rajasthan High Court
32		Justice S. Muralidhar	4 January 2021	7 August 2023	2 years, 215 days	Delhi High Court
33		Justice Subhasis Talapatra	8 August 2023	3 October 2023	56 days	Tripura High Court
34		Justice C. S. Singh	7 February 2024	19 January 2025	347 days	Patna High Court	Raghubar Das
35		Justice Harish Tandon	6 March 2025	Incumbent	346 days	Calcutta High Court	Kambhampati Hari Babu

This sections contains list of only those judges elevated as chief justices whose parent high court is Orissa. This includes those judges who, at the time of appointment as chief justice, may not be serving in Orissa High Court but this list does not include judges who at the time of appointment as chief justice were serving in Orissa High Court but does not have Orissa as their Parent High Court.

Name	Image	Appointed as CJ in HC of	Date of appointment		Date of retirement[a]	Tenure		Transferred as CJ to HC of	Ref..
			As Judge	As Chief Justice		As Chief Justice	As Judge[b]
Bachu Jagannadha Das		Orissa	26 July 1948	31 October 1951	3 March 1953[†]	1 year, 124 days	4 years, 226 days	--	[3]
Lingaraj Panigrahi				4 March 1953	20 March 1956	3 years, 17 days	7 years, 239 days	--
Ramaswamy Laxman Narasimham				21 March 1956	2 August 1968	12 years, 135 days	20 years, 8 days	Patna
Satya Bhusan Barman			3 February 1958	6 April 1967	30 April 1969	2 years, 25 days	11 years, 87 days	--
Gati Krushna Misra			30 January 1962	1 May 1969	31 October 1975	6 years, 184 days	13 years, 275 days	--
Sukanta Kishore Ray			25 October 1967	13 October 1977	5 November 1980	3 years, 24 days	13 years, 12 days	--
Ranganath Misra			4 July 1969	16 January 1981	14 March 1983[†]	2 years, 58 days	13 years, 254 days	--
Jugal Kishore Mohanty		Sikkim	12 July 1978	21 January 1986	4 January 1989	2 years, 350 days	10 years, 177 days	--	[4]
Braja Nath Misra			5 January 1981	20 January 1990	8 November 1992	2 years, 294 days	11 years, 309 days	--	[5]
Gopal Ballav Pattanaik		Patna	1 June 1983	19 May 1995	10 September 1995[†]	115 days	12 years, 102 days	--	[6]
Deba Priya Mohapatra		Allahabad	18 November 1983	16 February 1996	8 December 1998[†]	2 years, 296 days	15 years, 21 days	--
Arijit Pasayat		Kerala	20 March 1989	20 September 1999	18 October 2001[†]	2 years, 29 days	12 years, 213 days	Delhi
Radha Krishna Patra		Sikkim	22 June 1992	9 July 2003	23 November 2004	1 year, 138 days	12 years, 155 days	--
Ananga Kumar Patnaik		Chhattisgarh	13 January 1994	14 March 2005	16 November 2009[†]	4 years, 248 days	15 years, 308 days	Madhya Pradesh
Prafulla Kumar Mishra		Patna	17 January 1996	12 August 2009	16 September 2009	36 days	13 years, 243 days	--
Dipak Misra				23 December 2009	9 October 2011[†]	1 year, 291 days	15 years, 266 days	Delhi
Laxmi Kanta Mohapatra		Manipur	16 January 1999	10 July 2014	9 June 2016	1 year, 336 days	17 years, 146 days	--
Pradip Kumar Mohanty		Jharkhand	7 March 2002	24 March 2017	9 June 2017	78 days	15 years, 95 days	--
Indrajit Mahanty		Rajasthan	31 March 2006	6 October 2019	10 November 2022	3 years, 36 days	16 years, 225 days	Tripura	[7]
Sanjaya Kumar Mishra		Jharkhand	7 October 2009	20 February 2023	28 December 2023	312 days	14 years, 83 days	--	[8]
Bidyut Ranjan Sarangi			20 June 2013	5 July 2024	19 July 2024	15 days	11 years, 30 days	--	[9]
Sangam Kumar Sahoo		Patna	2 July 2014	7 January 2026	Incumbent	40 days	11 years, 229 days	--

This section includes the list of only those judges whose parent high court was Orissa. This includes those judges who, at the time of elevation toSupreme Court of India, may not be serving in Orissa High Court but this list does not include judges who at the time of elevation were serving in Orissa High Court but does not have Orissa as their Parent High Court.

#	Name of the Judge	Image	Date of Appointment		Date of Retirement	Tenure			Immediately preceding office
			In Parent High Court	In Supreme Court		In High Court(s)	In Supreme Court	Total tenure[a]
1	Bachu Jagannadha Das		26 July 1948	9 March 1953	26 July 1958	4 years, 226 days	5 years, 140 days	10 years, 1 day	2nd CJ of Orissa HC
2	Ranganath Misra		4 July 1969	15 March 1983	24 November 1991	13 years, 254 days	8 years, 255 days	22 years, 144 days	10th CJ of Orissa HC
3	Radha Charan Patnaik		18 September 1981	3 December 1991	30 May 1992[†]	10 years, 76 days	180 days	10 years, 256 days	Judge of Orissa HC
4	Gopal Ballav Pattanaik		1 June 1983	11 September 1995	18 December 2002	12 years, 102 days	7 years, 99 days	19 years, 201 days	27th CJ ofPatna HC
5	Deba Priya Mohapatra		18 November 1983	9 December 1998	2 August 2002	15 years, 21 days	3 years, 237 days	18 years, 258 days	35th CJ ofAllahabad HC
6	Arijit Pasayat		20 March 1989	19 October 2001	10 May 2009	12 years, 213 days	7 years, 204 days	20 years, 52 days	20th CJ ofDelhi HC
7	Ananga Kumar Patnaik		13 January 1994	17 November 2009	2 June 2014	15 years, 308 days	4 years, 198 days	20 years, 141 days	19th CJ ofMadhya Pradesh HC
8	Dipak Misra		17 January 1996	10 October 2011	2 October 2018	15 years, 266 days	6 years, 358 days	22 years, 259 days	26th CJ ofDelhi HC

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