How to Track Cases in the Orissa High Court

Where the Orissa High Court publishes case data

Step-by-step: tracking a case

1. 1

   If you have the CNR, use it

   An Orissa High Court CNR looks like ODHC010023582024 — ODHC01 for the single Cuttack establishment, then a six-digit sequence and the filing year. On the full HC Services portal at hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/main.php, CNR Number is the first item in the left menu: pick High Court of Orissa and enter the 16 alphanumeric characters without any hyphen or space. The cut-down landing page has no CNR option, which is why the search is sometimes assumed not to exist; the unified eCourts portal at services.ecourts.gov.in/ecourtindia_v6/ also accepts CNRs.

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   Without a CNR, use Case Status and Search by Case Number

   Four controls plus a captcha: an Old Case Number / New Case Number radio pair (New selected by default), Case Type (dropdown), Case Number (enter a maximum of 7 digits) and Year (4 digits). For historic numbering such as OJC, switch to Old Case Number first. Every High Court Services search is captcha-gated, so each lookup is a manual one.

3. 3

   Get the case type exactly right

   Several Orissa codes differ by two letters, and picking the wrong one returns nothing. See the code table below before you search.

4. 4

   Know which number you are holding

   The record carries both a Filing Number and a Case Number, and they differ: WP(C) 1000/2024 has filing number 1284/2024, CRLA 100/2024 has filing number 3679/2024. The filing number is issued on presentation; the case number arrives at registration, after scrutiny. If a number will not resolve under Search by Case Number, try Filing Number.

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   Read the Registry Objections block

   The record shows scrutiny objections with a date, the objection text and a Compliance by deadline — useful when a matter has stalled between filing and registration.

Case types you will get wrong

The Orissa vocabulary runs to 158 case types. There are no "(OLD)" labels here. Instead the dropdown carries near-duplicate pairs — a CRL- set and a CR- set — and picking the wrong one returns nothing.

Two checks worth running yourself: CRLMC 100/2024 returns a live record while CRMC 100/2024 returns nothing, and CRLA 100/2024 returns one while CRA 100/2024 returns nothing. A code sitting in the dropdown is not a promise that records exist under it. Then there are the tribunal-transfer families: a large block of codes carries a bench suffix inherited from the abolished Odisha Administrative Tribunal — WPC(OA) 132, WPC(OAC) 133, WPC(OAB) 134, WPC(OAS) 135. The trap is that the unsuffixed WPC(OA) means Bhubaneswar, not a default — C is Cuttack, B Berhampur, S Sambalpur. The same four-way split repeats across provisional numbers WPC(OAP*), permission petitions WPC(OAPP*), transfer applications WPC(TA*), contempt CONTC(CP*) and reviews RVWPET(RP*).

Downloading orders and judgments

Orders hang off the eCourts case record: a pending matter shows interim orders numbered in sequence with their dates, a disposed matter the final order or judgment. The two stores name files differently. Order links off the case record encode case type, number and year — WP(C) 1000/2024 gives 212600010002024_1.pdf — while the separate judgment store names files by CNR, as in ODHC010022482025_1_2025-08-26.pdf.

For a broader sweep, use Court Orders on High Court Services. One tab is Court Orders : Search By Judge, taking Judge Name, From Date, To Date, a Reportable Judgements toggle (Yes / All) and a Type of Orders dropdown, behind a captcha. Results return as Sr No, Case Type/Case Number/Case Year, Order Date and Order Number.

On citation: the Orissa judgment PDF checked for this guide carries no neutral citation string on its face — no 2025:OHC:-style stamp anywhere in the document. eCourts HC Services does carry a Court Orders to Neutral Citation Number search, so where a judgment has been assigned one it is searchable there. The court also publishes its own law reports, the Indian Law Reports (Cuttack Series), on its site. Where a judgment carries a stamped citation, copy the string exactly as stamped.

Cause lists

Cause lists live on the court's own site at orissahighcourt.nic.in/cause-list/ as PDFs. The list types there include Weekly List, Supplementary List, Additional Supplementary List, Lawazima, Lokadalat, Special List, Special Bench List, Reserve List and Bench Composition. Note the absence: there is no separate Daily List — the Weekly List plus supplementaries do that work.

The table has three columns — View/Download, Uploaded On, Notice — and the Uploaded On stamp is the thing to trust, a full timestamp in DD-MM-YYYY HH:MM AM/PM form. There is no date picker and no archive link: the whole back catalogue sits in one reverse-chronological table, currently reaching back to 2021.

Quirks specific to the Orissa High Court

• Odia translation is a live filing requirement

  A registry objection on a real record reads "UNDERTAKING FOR NON FILING OF TRANSLATED COPY NOT FILED". If your annexures are in Odia, file either the translation or the undertaking, or scrutiny will hold the matter.

• Judgments are translated into Odia

  There is a Judgments in Vernacular Language page at orissahighcourt.nic.in/vernacular_judgments/, subtitled in Odia script, with tabs for Supreme Court, High Court and Landmark judgments. Entries pair the English PDF with an Odia PDF.

• CrPC and BNSS run in parallel in the record

  A 2024 anticipatory bail matter shows its listing purpose as "FOR ORDERS - FRESH BAIL APPLICATIONS U/S 438 Cr.P.C./482 BNSS" while the same case's Charges field reads "CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE, 1973 §438". There is no separate BNSS case-type code — the vocabulary stays CrPC-worded, and the dual wording appears only in listing purposes.

• Certified-copy status is a PDF, not a lookup

  Applications go out to the Odisha e-District portal, but progress is published on the court's Certified Copy Status page as four daily PDFs — Copy Application Filed, Certified Copy Prepared, Copy Application Pending, Copy Application Notified — with no search box. You find yourself inside the PDF for the relevant date, so keep your application details and filing date to hand.

• E-filing has a one-mode rule

  The e-Filing 3.0 for The High Court of Orissa page points to filing.ecourts.gov.in and warns: "Please ensure that filing of the case is made only through one mode i.e. either on e-Filing portal or through email. Do not adopt both the modes simultaneously."

• The bench will change under you

  One pending criminal appeal records four different judges across seven listings — track the case, not the judge.

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