Cuttack, July 8: Orissa High Court lawyers, who have been on strike since Tuesday, will resume work on July 11.

High Court Bar Association secretary Bijay Kumar Ragada said: "Our general body, which met at 2pm today, called off the strike in the interest of litigants. We will resume work on Monday."

The lawyers had abstained from work to protest against the arrest of former additional government advocate Debashis Panda by the CBI for alleged links with Artha Tatwa chief Pradeep Kumar Sethy, a prime accused in deposit collection scam. Panda has been in jail since July 4 as the CBI court in Bhubaneswar rejected his bail petition. But today, Khurda District and Sessions Court granted him bail.

Panda came under the CBI scanner following the arrest of the former advocate general Ashok Mohanty on September 22, 2014. Panda, who had served as additional government advocate between 2009 and 2014, signed as a witness in the sale deed of a house that Mohanty purchased from Sethy.

About a thousand cases, including more than 300 bail petitions, went without hearing today because of the strike.

Hearing on a case of harassment of a girl student in an engineering college could not be taken up further by Orissa High Court. Reshma Behera, a fourth-year civil engineering student of Eastern Academy of Science and Technology, filed the petition alleging that she was harassed in the institution and seeking the court's intervention for her transfer to another college.

The court also could not take up the anticipatory bail application of Subhashree Das alias Mili Panda, the wife of jailed Maoist leader Sabya-sachi Panda. She has sought anticipatory bail in connection with a case registered at Sorada police station following the arrest of two suspected Maoists. Mili had reportedly supplied medicines and other essential items to the suspected Maoists.