District Court Building, Sundargarh

Sundargarh District was created out of the two former Princely states of Gangpur and Bonai, which integrated with Odisha on 1st January 1948. After 1st April 1978, Sundargarh Judgeship was separated from Sambalpur Judgeship, and from then onwards the District Court started functioning. 38 different courts are functioning in the judgeship with outlying stations at Bonai, Rajgangpur, Hemgiri, Biramitrapur, and Rourkela. The District Court is functioning in its old building from 1st April 1985. It is a two-storied building with a ground floor of 15,260 sq.ft. and the first floor is about 11,772 sq.ft. It has 9 Courtrooms, offices of different Courts, a Video Conferencing Room, e-Sewa Kendra, and V.C. cabin.

Sundargarh comes under the DCDH at Jharsuguda, which was inaugurated on 12th December 2022 in virtual mode by the Chief Justice of India.

The Virtual Centre of the High Court of Orissa at Sundargarh and Rourkela were inaugurated on 27th March 2023 and 03rd February 2023, respectively.

The Court of Civil Judge (Sr. Divn.) -cum- Asst. Sessions Judge (Women’s Court), Sundargarh, started functioning from 20th May 2023 after inauguration.

The Courts of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sundargarh, Principal Magistrate, Juvenile Justice Board, Sundargarh, and Additional District Judgecum- Special Judge (Vigilance) were declared as paperless courts in 2023.

An e-Library was established at Rajgangpur on 20th February 2023. Foundation stones for a new Bar Hall with Amenity centre at Sundargarh and a new court building at Hemgir were laid by Dr. Justice B.R. Sarangi, the then Acting Chief Justice.

Shri Subhadarshi Pattnaik was the District & Sessions Judge for the entire year of 2023.

From left to right of the top row- Inauguration of paperless court and Foundation stone laying of Court Complex
Bottom row- Foundation stone laying of Bar Hall

Number of judges in each court

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