Section 23: Judge not to try suits in which he is personally interested
The Odisha Civil Courts Act, 1984State Act of Odisha · Act 18 of 1984
(1) The presiding officer of a Civil Court shall not try any suit or other proceeding to which he is a party or in which he is personally interested.
(2) The presiding officer of an appellate Court under this Act shall not hear an appeal against a decree or order passed by himself in another capacity.
(3) When any such suit, proceeding or appeal as is referred to in Subsection (2) comes before any such officer, he shall forthwith transmit the record of the case to the Court to which he is immediately subordinate with a report of the circumstances attending the reference.
(4) The superior Court shall, thereupon dispose of the case under Section 24 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908).
1. Substituted vide O.G.E. No 1647, dt. 21.12.1993