Dule Dei v. Authorised Officer

IN THE HIGH COURT OF ORISSA AT CUTTACK

W.P.(C) No.20744 of 2010 Smt. Dula Dei and another ....

Petitioners None -versusAuthorized Officer/Assistant General Manager, State Bank of India Stressed Assets Management Branch (SAMB) and others ....

Opposite Parties Mr. Himansu Patnaik, Advocate for SBI

CORAM:

THE CHIEF JUSTICE JUSTICE R.K. PATTANAIK

ORDER

10.08.2022 Order No.

12.

1. The criminal proceedings are still said to be pending. This Court has already by an order dated 17th May 2011 in the connected W.P.(C) No.12889 of 2011 stayed the proceedings in the Debt Recovery Tribunal, Cuttack (DRT) in O.A. No.349 of 2009 and that stay order has continued for more than eleven years now.

2. Instead of waiting endlessly for the conclusion of the criminal proceedings, the Court considers it appropriate to dispose of the present writ petition by directing that the aforementioned interim order shall continue till the conclusion of the criminal proceedings after which, depending on the outcome of those criminal proceedings, the proceedings in the DRT will revive vis-à-vis the present Petitioners.

3. The writ petition is disposed of in the above terms.

4. Issue urgent certified copy of this order as per rules. (Dr. S. Muralidhar) Chief Justice (R.K. Pattanaik) Judge S.K. Guin