Page 1 of 2. IN THE HIGH COURT OF ORISSA AT CUTTACK CONTC No.6374 of 2025 Jasani Dehuria ..... Petitioner Represented by Adv. - M/s Babita Kumari Pattanaik -versus- Satyabrat Sahu, IAS, Addl. Chief Secretary, Home Department, Govt. of Orissa & Ors. ..... Opposite Parties/ Contemnors Represented by Adv. – A.Mohanty, A.S.C. CORAM: THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE ADITYA KUMAR MOHAPATRA ORDER 06.03.2026 Order No. 01. 1. This matter is taken up through Hybrid Arrangement (Virtual /Physical Mode). 2. Heard learned counsel for the Petitioner as well as learned counsel for the Contemnors. 3. Alleging violation of this Court’s judgment dated 04.11.2024 passed in W.P.(C) No.33857 of 2020 and a batch of other similar writ applications, the Petitioner has approached this Court by filing the present contempt application. 4. Learned counsel for the Petitioner at the outset contended that by virtue of the common judgment dated 04.11.2024, this Court disposed of the batch of writ applications by a detailed judgment directing the Opposite Parties to regularize the service of Page 2 of 2. the Petitioner strictly in terms of the order passed by the Hon’ble Division Bench dated 14.08.2012 and 05.11.2012. The Opposite Parties were further directed to review the cases of the 773 employees who were found beyond the 50% reserved category quota. He further submitted that although the judgment was delivered on 04.11.2024 and the same has attained finality as the judgment has not been challenged further by the State-Opposite Parties, the Opposite Parties have not implement the aforesaid judgment. 5. In view of the aforesaid position and in the absence of any specific time limit in the judgment dated 04.11.2024, this Court disposes of the present contempt application by granting further three months’ time to the Opposite Parties to implement the judgment dated 04.11.2024. 6. Accordingly, the Contempt Proceeding is dropped with liberty to the Petitioner to approach this Court again in the event the judgment dated 04.11.2024 has not been implemented by the Opposite Parties. Urgent certified copy of this order be granted on proper application. ( A.K. Mohapatra ) Judge Anil Designation: Junior Stenographer