District Court Building, Bhadrak

In 1901, a Munsif court was established in the region. Until 1900, the litigants had to go to Jajpur for filing Civil Cases. The Court of Civil Judge (Sr. Divn.), Bhadrak and Additional District Judge, Bhadrak, were established in the year 1966 and 1987 respectively.

After the reconstitution of the districts in the State, the new revenue district of Bhadrak was constituted in 1993. Subsequently, the court of District and Sessions Judge, Bhadrak was established on 21st May, 2011 after being separated from Balasore. 24 different courts are functioning in this judgeship with outlying stations at Basudevpur, Chandabali, and Dhamnagar. The District Court Digitization Hub (DCDH) was inaugurated on 12th December, 2022, and it serves as a hub for Jajpur and Kendrapara. In the year 2023, a total of 1,38,601 numbers of case records (87,82,033 pages) were scanned.

The Virtual Centre of the High Court of Orissa at Bhadrak was inaugurated on 03rd February, 2023. The court of the District and Sessions Judge was already functioning as a paperless court, and other 5 different courts were inaugurated as paperless Courts in 2023.

Shri Pradyumna Kumar Nayak was the District and Sessions Judge till 20th September 2023, and Sri Sangram Keshari Pattanaik continued thereafter till the end of the year 2023.

From left to right of the top row-Drawing competition and inauguration of paperless court
Middle row-inauguration of paperless courts
Bottom row- Prize distribution of drawing competition.

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