Orissa HC Relief For IAS Officer, Family Extended Till May 5
Seeking protection and judicial intervention, Bishnupada Sethi and his kin had approached the Orissa High Court alleging mental harassment by the CBI officers.
Published : April 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM IST
Cuttack: The Orissa High Court on Monday once again extended its interim protection for beleaguered senior IAS officer Bishnupada Sethi and his family from any “coercive action” by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) till May 5 of this year.
The single-judge Bench of Justice S K Panigrahi, adjudicating over the writ petitions filed by Sethi and his family, for the second time on Monday extended the protection it had granted to the petitioners on February 25. This was extended for the first time on March 4.
The High Court granted protection to Sethi, his wife, and his daughter in connection with Sethi’s alleged link with a senior officer of a Central Public Sector Unit (PSU), who was arrested in December 2024 for a Rs 10-lakh bribery case.
On February 18 this year, the CBI sleuths simultaneously raided Sethi’s official residence at Bhubaneswar and his parental house in Bhadrak district. After quizzing Sethi, the CBI seized his daughter’s laptop and his wife’s bank passbook. Seeking protection and judicial intervention, the trio had approached the Orissa High Court alleging mental harassment by the CBI officers.
In his petition, Sethi has claimed that he had no links with the Central PSU—Bridge and Roof Company (India) Ltd and its officer Chanchal Mukherjee, who was caught taking bribe from a real estate firm.
