Registry
The Rules of the High Court of Orissa, 1948 lays down the procedures for functioning of the different branches of the Court. The High Court has two major wings: Judicial and Administrative. The administrative wing otherwise known as the Registry of the High Court has different departments further divided into various sections manned by High Court Officials. The organizational structure is depicted on the facing page. The Registrar General of the High Court heads it. The Registrar General oversees the functioning of every wing.
In 2025, several posts in different cadres were created by the State Government on the recommendation of the High Court. Details of the posts created in the year are at Appendix-H.
There are different categories of Officers and staff in the Registry;
1 Judicial Officers from the Odisha Superior Judicial Service and Odisha Judicial Service;
2 Ministerial Officers and Staff (Additional Registrar, Joint Registrars, Additional Deputy Registrars, Assistant Registrars, Superintendents, Section Officers, Assistant Section Officers, Court Managers, System Analyst, Programmer, Peripatetic Stamp Reporters, Judicial Indexer, Translators, Librarian, Assistant Librarian and Technical Assistants, Typist, Copyist and Diarist cadres, Driver cadres, Treasury Sarkar, Jamadars, Attenders, Duftaries, Cook-cum-Caretaker, Mali-cum-Chowkidar and Group-D staff);
3 Secretarial Officers and Staff (Additional Registrar-cum-Principal Secretary, Joint Registrar-cum-Principal Secretary, Additional Deputy Registrars-cum-Additional Principal Secretaries, Assistant Registrars-cum-Senior Secretaries, Secretaries, Personal Assistants, Senior Stenographers and Junior Stenographers);
4 Government Officers and Staff on deputation (Senior Technical Director and Scientist(F) of National Informatics Centre, Financial Advisor, the Medical Officers (Allopathy) and staff of the High Court Dispensary, the Medical Officer (Homeopathy) and staff of the High Court Homeopathy Dispensary and Physiotherapist;
5 Technical personnel for e-Courts project (Senior System Officer, System Officers and
System Assistants);
6 Persons holding tenure posts in the High Court (Law Reporter, Research Assistants and Assistant Editor)
Registry of the High Court
Sitting from left to right: Satyabrata Mishra, Co-ordinator, Arbitration Centre; Santosh Kumar Dash Ray, Officer on Special Duty (Vigilance), Dr. Jeevanjyoti Rath, Registrar (Administration); Srinibash Pratihari, Registrar (Vigilance), Dr. Bhagyalaxmi Rath, Registrar General, Bikram Pattanaik, Registrar (Inspection), Satya Ranjan Pradhan, Registrar (Judicial), Rudra Prasad Mahapatra, Secretary, Juvenile Justice Committes and Hara Prasad Padhy, Registrar, Records
Standing from left to right: Asish Kumar Parichha, Specil Officer (Special Cell); Shibasish Giri, Deputy Registrar (Judicial), Nitisha Chandak, Addl. Co-ordinator, Arbitration Centre; Sishir Kumar Sahoo, Assistant, Registrar (Admin.), C.A. Desapriya Barik, Deputy Registrar (Admin. & Protocol), Soumya Sourav, Central Project Coordinator and Biswajit Nayak, Special Officer (Administration)
Ministerial Officers of the High Court of Orissa
Sitting from left to right: Nibedita Panda, A.R-cum-Addl. Stamp Reporter & Oath Commissioner, Anasuya Patra, A.R-cum-Addl. Stamp Reporter & Oath Commissioner, Sanjukta Parida, Asst. Registrar (Judicial), Prativa Sahoo, 2 Asst. Registrar (Judicial), Gitanjali Mukhi, 3rd Asst. Registrar (Judicial), Anjana Kar, A.R-cum-Addl. Stamp Reporter & Oath Commissioner, Namita Behera, A.D.R. (J &E), Paranjaya Mishra, Joint Registrar (Establishment), Kailash Chandra Barik, A.D.R. (J&E), Mahesh Prasad Dash, A.D.R. (J&E), Gangadhar Tarai, A.R-cum-Stamp Reporter & Oath Commissioner, Nabin Kumar Parida, Asst. Registrar (J&E), Subash Chandra Sahoo, A.R-cum-Addl. Stamp Reporter & Oath Commissioner, Mrutyunjaya Dash, A.D.R. (J&E) and Aditya Narayana Mahana, A.R-cum-Addl. Stamp Reporter & Oath Commissioner
Standing From left to right: Jayanta Kumar Mohapatra, Asst. Registrar-cum-Estt. Officer, Pradipa Kumar Das, Asst. Registrar (Protocol), Ramachandra Tudu, A.D.R.
(J&E), Debendra Nath Murmu, A.R-cum-Addl. Stamp Reporter & Oath Commissioner, Asish Kumar Sahoo, 1st Asst. Registrar (Judicial), Kali Ch. Hansdah, A.R-cum-Additional Stamp Reporter & Oath Commissioner, Rabindra Nath Mallick, A.R-cum-Additional Stamp Reporter & Oath Commissioner, Pravakar Sing, A.R.-cum-Addl. Stamp Reporter & Oath Commissioner, Santosh Kumar Sethy, Pravakar Sing, A.R-cum-Addl. Stamp Reporter & Oath Commissioner, Ashutosh Lenka, Pravakar Sing, A.R.-cum-Addl. Stamp Reporter & Oath Commissioner, Chakradhar Naik, Pravakar Sing, A.R.-cum-Addl. Stamp Reporter & Oath Commissioner, Dinabandhu Rath, A.R.-cum-Addl. Stamp Reporter & Oath Commissioner, Gautam Kumar Marandi, Asst. Registrar (Protocol) and Laxmidhar Mohapatra, Asst. Registrar (Estt.)
Secretarial Officers of the High Court Orissa
From left to right: Gayadhar Samal, Joint Registrar-cum-Principal Secretary, Alok Ranjan Sethy. A.R.-cum-Senior Secretary, Ranjan Kumar Sethi, A.R-cum- Senior Secretary, Chittaranjan Biswal, A.R-cum- Senior Secretary, Arun Kumar Mishra, A.D.R-cum-Additional Principal Secretary, Manoja Kumar Rout, A.D.R-cum-Additional Principal Secretary, Anand Dash, Additional Registrar-cum-Principal Secretary, Ashish Kumar Kar, Joint Registrar-cum-Principal Secretary, Samir Kumar Parida, A.D.R-cum-Additional Principal Secretary, Basudev Nayak, A.D.R-cum-Additional Principal Secretary, Pravakar Nayak, A.R-cum- Senior Secretary, Bhabagrahi Jhankar, A.R-cum-Senior Secretary and Sasanka Sekhar Satapathy, A.R-cum- Senior Secretary
Job description of Judicial Officers in the Registry
