ORIGINAL JURISDICTION - Orissa High Court
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION - Orissa High Court
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION - Orissa High Court
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2010 ( I ) ILR-CUT- 285<br />
B.P.DAS,J & S.C.PARIJA,J.<br />
NITYANANDA BEHERA -V- STATE OF ORISSA & ANR.*<br />
FEBRUARY 5,2010.<br />
NOTARY ACT, 1952 (ACT NO.52 OF 1952 ) – SEC.5(2) r/w RULE<br />
13(12)(b)<br />
Notarial Certificate of practice – Renewal of – A Notary once<br />
registered is entitled to renewal as a matter of course – State<br />
Government has no discretion to refuse renewal.<br />
In the present case there was allegations of misconduct against<br />
the petitioner – State Government after considering the misconduct<br />
exercised power under Rule 13(12)(b) (iii) of the Notaries Rules, letting<br />
off the petitioner with warning – Held, the self same misconduct can<br />
not be a ground for refusing renewal of his Notarial Certificate of<br />
Practice – Direction issued to Opp.Parties to grant renewal to the<br />
petitioner within four weeks. (Para 8,11 & 12)<br />
Case law Referred to:-<br />
AIR 1992 Kerala 152 : ( State of Kerala & Ors.-V- K.U.Narayana Poduval &<br />
Ors.).<br />
For Petitioner – M/s. Sujata Dash, R.P.Das & R.Choudhury.<br />
For Opp.Parties – Addl.Government Advocate.<br />
*W.P.(C) NO.8647 OF 2006. In the matter of an application under articles<br />
226 & 227 of the Constitution of India.<br />
S.C.PARIJA, J. The decision of the State Government in the Law<br />
Department not to renew the Notarial Certificate of Practice of the petitioner,<br />
with effect from 16.7.1998, is under challenge in the present writ petition.<br />
2. The case of the petitioner, as detailed in the writ petition, is that he<br />
enrolled as an advocate under the State Bar Council in the year 1972 and<br />
started practice at Baripada. On completing more than ten years of active<br />
practice as an advocate, the petitioner made an application in the prescribed<br />
form accompanied by requisite fees, for being appointed as a Notary. The<br />
State Government appointed the petitioner as a Notary, for a period of three<br />
years, with effect from 16.7.1983, as per the Notarial Certificate of Practice<br />
dated 16.7.1983 (Annexure-1). The said Notarial Certificate of Practice was<br />
renewed from time to time, authorising the petitioner to practice as a Notary.<br />
3. In the year 1998, the petitioner applied for renewal of his Notarial<br />
Certificate of Practice and accordingly submitted application with requisite<br />
fees. While the renewal was pending, the petitioner was served with a show<br />
cause notice from the State Government in the Law Department dated<br />
08.01.1998, on various false allegations of misconduct, which were on the<br />
basis of anonymous letters purported to have been received from some<br />
persons. The petitioner filed his reply to the said show cause notice. The<br />
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