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A High Court for Bihar and Orissa
India Post issued this ₹5 stamp on 18 April 2015 for the centenary of the Patna High Court. Bihar and Orissa were separated from the Bengal Presidency as a new province by a proclamation of 22 March 1912, and the Patna High Court was created by Letters Patent of 9 February 1916, with circuit sittings at Cuttack. The Viceroy, Lord Hardinge, had laid the foundation stone of its building on 1 December 1913, and opened it at a durbar on 3 February 1916. The court began work on 1 March 1916 with Sir Edward Maynard Des Champs Chamier as Chief Justice and six puisne judges.
A Hundred Years
Orissa became a separate province in 1937, but the Patna High Court kept its jurisdiction there until a High Court for Orissa was set up on 26 July 1948. Executive and judicial functions were first separated in the districts of Patna and Shahabad on 3 January 1950, and later in every district of the state. When the stamp was issued the court had 29 permanent and 14 additional judges.
The stamp was designed by Brahm Prakash; Security Printing Press, Hyderabad printed 0.6 million, 0.1 million of them for the proponent.
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