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In a key verdict, the Orissa High Court on Friday set aside the premature retirement of senior judicial officer Sanjaya Kumar Sahoo and ordered that the matter be reconsidered afresh by the competent authority.
According to the case reports, Sahoo joined the judicial service in 1997 as an Additional Civil Judge (Junior Division)-cum-Judicial Magistrate Second Class.
He was posted as the presiding officer of the Family Court in Nabarangpur when the state government issued a notification on March 11, 2022, directing his premature retirement at the age of 55, five years ahead of the standard superannuation age of 60 for judicial of...