Cuttack: Judge of Orissa High Court Justice Bidyut Ranjan Sarangi was on Wednesday appointed as the Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court.
The appointment was made by President Droupadi Murmu in consultation with Chief Justice of India Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal informed through a post on X.
Similarly Judge of Jharkhand High Court Justice Chandrashekhar has been transferred to Rajasthan High Court.
Justice Sarangi was elevated to the Bench and sworn in as a permanent judge of Orissa High Court on June 20, 2013. He also served as Acting Chief Justice (CJ) of the High Court on superannuation of Justice Subhasis Talapatra, the then Chief Justice, on October 3, 2023.
A native of Nayagarh, he did his LLB & LLM. from M S Law College, Cuttack and was awarded PhD in Law from Sambalpur University. He joined the Bar in December 1985 while having regular practice in Orissa High Court, Cuttack and Supreme Court of India, New Delhi. He dealt in cases related to civil, criminal, constitutional, revenue, tax, labour, service, mining, education, electricity, insurance, banking, telephone and elections.
Justice Sarangi was conferred with ‘Haricharan Mukherjee Memorial Award’ with gold medal for 2002 for outstanding performance and high standard of professional ethics as a lawyer.