{"id":19606,"date":"2012-04-19T11:19:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T05:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=19606"},"modified":"2012-04-19T11:19:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T05:49:23","slug":"supreme-court-to-hear-plea-on-abducted-odisha-legislator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/supreme-court-to-hear-plea-on-abducted-odisha-legislator","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court to hear plea on abducted Odisha legislator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/supreme-court-to-hear-plea-on-abducted-odisha-legislator\/supreme-court-208\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19610\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"19610\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/supreme-court-to-hear-plea-on-abducted-odisha-legislator\/supreme-court-208\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/supreme-court.png?fit=135%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"135,144\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"supreme court\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/supreme-court.png?fit=135%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/supreme-court.png?fit=135%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19610\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/supreme-court.png?resize=135%2C144&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a>The Supreme Court will Thursday hear a plea seeking restraint on the Odisha government from freeing 29 imprisoned suspected Maoists and their sympathisers in exchange for the release of ruling Biju Janata Dal\u2019s legislator Jhina Hikaka, who was abducted by the rebels March 24.<\/p>\n<p>The apex court bench of Justice T.S. 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