District Court Building, Kandhamal

The district of Kandhamal was constituted on 1st January, 1994 from the former Boudh- Kandhmal District with its headquarters at Phulbani. Since 11th April, 1984, the Judgeship of Phulbani was separated from the combined Judgeship of Ganjam-Boudh, constituting its territorial jurisdiction over three sub-divisions, Phulbani, Boudh & Balliguda with 7 subordinate Courts. After the separation of Boudh, the Judgeship of Phulbani is presently functioning with 24 different Courts with outlying stations at Balliguda, G. Udayagiri, Daringibadi, Kotagarh, and Tumudibandha. The District Court is functioning in an old building constructed in 1999 having two floors with 9 Courtrooms, of which 2 are in ground floor and the other 5 are in the first floor. Adjacent to this old building, there exists another Court Building with 2 other Court rooms having facilities like Video Conferencing (VC) Hall, VC Cabin, and E-Sewa Kendra. Kandhamal comes under the DCDH at Nayagarh which was inaugurated on 12th December, 2022 in Virtual Mode by the Chief Justice of India.

Three numbers of paperless courts of Asst. Sessions Judge-(Women’s) Court, Phulbani, J.M.F.C., Phulbani & Addl. District & Sessions Judge – cum- Special Judge, Vigilance, Phulbani, Kandhamal were inaugurated in 2023.

The Virtual Centre of the High Court of Orissa at Kandhamal at Phulbani was inaugurated on 27th March, 2023.

Shri Satyapira Mishra was the District and Sessions Judge for the entire year of 2023.

From left to right of the row- Foundation stone laying of court complex and inauguration of paperless court

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

Number of judges in each court

Case Statistics