Orissa HC Announces Holiday For District Courts On Polling Days

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court has announced holiday for district courts on all four days of simultaneous elections in the state.

A notification, issued by the High Court, said all the district courts and their offices will remain closed on election days of their respective Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies.

“The High Court of Orissa is pleased to declare holiday for the district courts and their offices located within the Parliamentary and Assembly constituency on the respective date of polling on account of elections to Lok Sabha and Legislative Assembly, 2024,” read the notification.

As per the schedule announced by the Election Commission of India (ECI), the polling for 147-member Assembly and 21 Lok Sabha constituencies in Odisha will be held in four phases on May 13, 20, 25 and June 1.

In the first phase, polling will be held in Kalahandi, Nabarangpur, Berhampur and Koraput Lok Sabha constituencies and the Assembly segments under those seats. Bargarh, Sundargarh, Balangir, Kandhamal and Aska Lok Sabha seats will go to polling in the second phase.

The voters will exercise their franchise in Sambalpur, Keonjhar, Dhenkanal, Cuttack, Puri and Bhubaneswar Lok Sabha seats in the third phase election and Mayurbhanj, Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Kendrapada and Jagatsinghpur Lok Sabha constituencies will go to polls in the fourth and final phase of election in Odisha.