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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CIVIL APPEAL Nos.13931-13932 OF 2024 (Arising out of SLP(C) Nos.7135-7136 of 2023)
ASHOK KUMAR SAHOO & ORS. Appellant(s)
VERSUS
STATE OF ORISSA & ORS. Respondent(s)
O R D E R
The record of proceedings reveal that notices were directed to
be issued to the respondents and the service upon them was complete
but even then no one had put in appearance. Therefore, this Court
by previous order dated 03.09.2024 had directed to proceed ex parte
against them.
Today also, when the case is called out, no one has appeared
for the respondents.
We have heard the learned counsel for the appellants on
merits.
Leave granted.
The challenge in these appeals is to the order dated
03.11.2022 and the subsequent order dated 17.01.2023. The writ
appeal was decided and subsequent to it the application for recall
of the said order on the ground that it was decided without hearing
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the learned counsel for the appellants was rejected by the High
Court.
The submission of the learned counsel for the appellants is
that the writ appeal was posted for hearing on 27.10.2022 before
the High Court on which date, there was a call for strike by the
Orissa High Court Bar Association and therefore, their counsel
could not appear but even then the matter was taken up and decided
by the High Court. ...