With the formation of a separate province of Odisha in 1936, Bargarh district was carved out incorporating the areas of two sub-divisions, Bargarh and Padmapur from the erstwhile district of Sambalpur in March 1993. The Judgeship of Bargarh was separated from its parent judgeship Sambalpur with effect from 12th July, 2011, and the Court of District and Sessions Judge started functioning at Bargarh. A total of 24 different courts are functioning in the judgeship, with outlying stations at Padampur, Sohela, Barpali, Attabira, and Bheden.

Bargarh comes under the DCDH at Sambalpur which was inaugurated on 12th December, 2022. In the year 2023, a total of 13,134 numbers of case records (12,24,799 pages) were scanned.

In total, 4 different courts were inaugurated as paperless Courts in 2023.

The Virtual centre of the High Court of Orissa at Bargarh was inaugurated on 19th October, 2023.

Smt. Luna Mohanty was the District Judge for the entire year.

From left to right of the top row- Health camp and Programme on Yoga and Meditation.
Bottom row- Cyber crime prevention programme

Apart from the District and Sessions Judge, the judgeship consists of the following courts:

Number of judges in each court

Case Statistics