Orissa High Court — case status, e-filing and the RTI route

The High Court of Orissa is one of the older High Courts and runs a genuinely useful site: cause lists, case status, free order and judgment downloads, a certified-copy status tracker, and a published Section 4(1)(b) RTI manual.

1. Search the case on the court's portal by case number, party name, advocate or CNR — the CNR is the unique national identifier a district-court case carries into the High Court
2. Track listing through the daily cause list; urgent matters move through mentions and applications, not waiting
3. Download orders and judgments free from the portal as they are published
4. Certified copies — apply at the copying section or through the portal's certified-copy application; the portal's status tracker shows where the copy stands, and the copying branch's own rates apply

The court has framed the e-Filing Rules for the High Court of Orissa, 2024, and parallel e-filing rules for district courts and tribunals under its control — both are published with the court's rules. The court's homepage carries the standing notice that advocates and parties can file electronically through the e-Filing portal. Filing is available round the clock; scrutiny happens in court hours, so a defective filing is best corrected before the next working day closes.

The line every High Court page should draw clearly:

• Judicial records — pleadings, orders, judgments, case files — are obtained through the court's own copying procedure, not RTI
• Administrative records — the establishment, vacancies, infrastructure, procurement, listing administration, the court's Section 4(1)(b) manual — are disclosable under RTI through the court's PIO, whose details the 4(1)(b) publication carries

A workable administrative-records request:

1. Name and designation of the Public Information Officer of the High Court.
2. The number of sanctioned and vacant posts in the copying section as on date.
3. The average time taken to issue certified copies in the past 12 months, with figures.
4. Copies of orders on administrative complaints regarding copying-section delays in 2025-26.
5. The procedure and fee schedule for inspection of administrative records.

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• District courts across Odisha run on the eCourts services, and the court's site links its digitisation centres — the DCDC programme that scans and serves older district records
• The certified-copy status tracker on the court's site is the single most useful page for litigants waiting on copies — check it before standing in a queue or filing an RTI about the copy
• e-Filing under the 2024 rules covers pleadings and applications; the homepage notice is the standing announcement, and the rules themselves are published with the court's rule set
• Bench jurisdiction — the High Court sits at Cuttack for the whole state; there is no circuit bench division of the registry for RTI purposes

Yes — status, cause lists, orders and judgments on the court's portal are free to view and download.

No — judicial-side records follow the court's certified-copy procedure. RTI reaches the court's administrative records through its PIO.

Yes, under the e-Filing Rules for the High Court of Orissa, 2024 — the rules and the portal links are on the court's site.

The court is an Odisha public authority; the state ₹10 schedule applies, with the court's own rules where it has framed them.

• e-Filing in district and High Courts — the process
• All eCourts and judicial guides
• RTI for a delayed court case
• Helplines and grievance routes
• The RTI Playbook book

• Orissa High Court — official website: case status, rules, e-filing notice
• High Court of Orissa — Section 4(1)(b) RTI disclosure manual

Last reviewed: 26 August 2026. Website, e-filing rules and the 4(1)(b) manual verified against the court's live site; unverified certified-copy rate figures from the old page have been removed.