The Judgeship of Cuttack started functioning in 1936. It covered a huge area encompassing the Revenue Districts of Cuttack, Balasore, and Puri as well as the Princely State of Dhenkanal. Subsequently, Puri and Balasore had their separate Judgeships and therefore, Cuttack Judgeship was confined to the Revenue District of Cuttack and Dhenkanal till 1977, when the Judgeship of Dhenkanal was separated. The then Judgeship of Cuttack extended to the Revenue Districts of Cuttack, Kendrapara, Jajpur, and Jagatsinghpur from the year 1977. On 26th and 28th June, 2012, Kendrapara and Jajpur became separate Judgeships respectively.

Today, Cuttack is the largest judgeship of the state in terms of the number of courts with 74 different functioning courts with outlying stations at Athagarh, Narsinghpur, Baramba, Banki, Salipur, Tigiria, and Niali.

The District Court is functioning in the old building comprising old District Court building, Civil Court extension building, and Track Court Building in the District Court Complex.

The District Court Digitization Hub (DCDH), Cuttack was inaugurated on 12th December, 2022, and it serves as a hub for Khorda, Puri, and Jagatsinghpur. A total of 3,22,609 case records comprising of 2,50,77,717 pages were scanned in 2023.

In 2023, following paperless courts were established within the District Court Complex, Cuttack, namely: Civil Judge (Senior Division) (Commercial Court), Cuttack, 5th Addl. Civil Judge

(Senior Division), Cuttack, ADJ-cum-Special Court under POCSO Act, Cuttack, Assistant Sessions Judge (STC), Cuttack, Civil Judge (Junior Division), 2nd Court, Cuttack, Special Judge, Special Court, Cuttack, Chief Judicial Magistrate, Cuttack, 3rd Addl. Sr. Civil Judge, Cuttack, 4th Addl. Sr. Civil Judge, Cuttack, and 2nd Addl. Sr. Civil Judge, Cuttack.

Shri Sowmendra Kumar Rajguru was the District and Sessions Judge till 30th November, 2023, and Shri Sanjaya Ranjan Bohidar took over on 12th December, 2023.

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

Number of judges in each court

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