Hon'ble Orissa high Court acted like an agent of the rulling govennment and political party in the Ex MLA Pradeep Kumar Panigrahi case causing further sabataging the faith of people of Odisha in It which is already lost.
The Supreme Court on Thursday set aside a judgment of the Orissa High Court which had quashed an Odisha Lokayukta order for a probe by the state vigilance department against Gopalpur MLA Pradeep Panigrahi.
Acting on a complaint the Odisha Lokayukta had directed a preliminary inquiry on December 11, 2020, DSP vigilance Ranjan Kumar Das filed a complaint under a secret inquiry by the anti-corruption wing.
While issuing the order, the Odisha Lokayukta had observed that prima facie probe revealed that Pradeep Kumar Panigrahi amassed assets disproportionate to his known source of income by resorting to corrupt practices. Panigrahi had then filed the high court, petition challenging the legality of the Odisha Lokayukta’s order.
Acting on it, the High Court quashed Odisha Lokayukta’s order on February 3, 2021 on grounds that it went beyond the concept of fair trial as the complainant (state vigilance) and investigating authority are the same. Subsequently, Lokayukta challenged it in the Supreme Court.
Allowing the petition, the two-judge bench of Justice Ajay Rastogi and Justice Bela M Trivedi on Thursday ruled that there was “no legal infirmity” in the Odisha Lokayukta’s December 11, 2020 order as it was “within the scope and ambit” of it powers. The SC Bench said high court’s February 3, 2021 order is “not legally sustainable” as it completely overlooked the Odisha Lokayukta Act, 2014.
If the Orissa high court and its presiding judges do not have any idea about whether the Principle of Natural Justice is violated in a particular case or not then how the people of the state expect them that they can ascertain whether a murder, Rape or dacoity is committed or not.
The young lawyers who are working on this blog have reason to believe that the Orissa High Court does not consider itself as part of the Union of India and does not consider that the precedents of the Supreme Court are also binding on them. the young lawyers feel that they are in the wrong profession and do not have any future in the same because they will not be able to grant any remedy to their client if the top judiciary of the state operates a Paisa Vashooli Racket.
The State Government and the High Court are acting on a Quad Pro Quo basis being partners in crime as nobody taking any action against each other to eradicate the corruption prevailing in the Government and higher judiciary of the state.
More than 20000 orders have been passed since the judgments of the apex court in Priyanka Srivastava Vs State of UP, 2015, Sakiri Basu etc. but the Orissa HC and its officers are not complying with the same for the wrongful gain. No contempt of court proceeding was ever initiated against the erring IIC of the Police Station and SP of the district making the lives of the domiciles miserable. No direction even issued to register FIR against the erring IIC and SPs u/s 166A of the IPC,1860 for violation the rule of law and the direction of law.
It is a universal fact that there is no law education in the state for last 30 years as the BCI and OSBC failed miserably to promote and regulate law education in the state as these are regularly extortion money and bribes from the letter pad law colleges of the state who have been granted temporary approval without any inspection by the BCI and OSBC and the principal of the law colleges are selling the answer material for money to the law students so that they can write in the examination and by such unfair means the law graduates are securing their law degrees without imparting any law education from the college and procuring enrollment in the BAR by paying Rs.42,000/- as extortion/bribe to become an advocate. The Hon’ble Orissa High Court also accepted this fact but nothing has been done to curve the same as the same is running under a deep-rooted criminal conspiracy.