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p. 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ORISSA AT CUTTACK
CONTC No.5573 of 2025
Anurag Bouk …. Petitioner
Mr. S. Roy, Advocate
-versus- Prasant Kumar Mohanty,O.E.S.-1, District Education Officer, Nuapada …. Opp.Party
Mr. S.B. Panda, AGA
CORAM:
JUSTICE KRISHNA SHRIPAD DIXIT
Order No.
02.
ORDER 13.02.2026
The operative portion of the order dated 19.08.2025, whereby complainant’s W.P.(C) No.22391 of 2024 was disposed off, reads as under:
“ In the above circumstances, this writ petition succeeds; a Writ of Certiorari issues quashing the impugned rejection order dated 26.07.2024 at Annexure-7; matter is remitted to the portals of OP No.4 for consideration afresh in the light of Jita Luha case supra, Notification No.11771 dated 04.04.2025, and also the rules that obtained when Petitioner’s father breathed his last. This exercise has to be undertaken and accomplished within a period of eight weeks.”
2. Learned AGA-Mr. Panda appearing for the OP specifically submits that in terms of the said order the compassionate appointment letter has been issued on 03.02.2026 and a compliance affidavit E-file is also filed on 12.02.2026.
The Counsel for the complainant is absent and therefore, this Court assumes that there is compliance. p. 2 In the above circumstances, the contempt proceedings are dropped.
Web copy of this order to be acted upon by all concerned.
(Krishna Shripad Dixit)
Judge
Madhusmita