Cuttack: The two new judges of Orissa High Court, Justice Subhasis Talapatra and Advocate Sanjay Kumar Mishra administered the oath of office by Chief Justice S Muralidhar on Friday. The swearing in ceremony began at 10 am.
A formal notification had been issued on June 3 by the Union Ministry of Law and Justice and the announcement was made after receiving approval from the President.
Justice Subhasis Talapatra was born on October 4, 1961 in Udaipur, Tripura. He graduated from the University of Calcutta with a bachelor’s degree in arts and a law degree on September 12, 1990. He became a lawyer at the Bar Council and was practicing in the Guwahati High Court.
Justice Talapatra was named a senior lawyer on December 21, 2004. Following this, he was sworn in as an Additional Judge of the Guwahati High Court on November 15, 2011 and later He was later on September 13, 2013 he sworn in as a permanent judge of the Tripura High Court.
He served as the Chief Justice of the Tripura High Court for a short time in November 2016 and in November 2017.
Likewise, Sanjay Kumar Mishra, the advocate who is set to appear as an Odisha High Court judge, was born in Burla. However, he is a native of Muktadeipur village in Dhenkanal district.
He was born to Engineer Bibhuti Bhusan and Banalata Mishra in Burla but he is a native of Muktadeipur village in Dhenkanal district.
Advocate Sanjay Kumar Mishra passed his matriculation from Thermal High School in Talcher in 1983 and he did his B.Com from Angul College in 1987. Then he completed his LLB from M.S. Colleges in 1990 after which he began his career as a lawyer and played a vital role in several important cases dealt with in the Orissa High Court.
Notably, with the appointment of the two Judges, the number of Judges of the High Court rose to 23 while the sanctioned strength of judges in Orissa HC is 33 including Chief Justice.
Kalinga AI