India, Aug. 25 -- The Orissa High Court ordered the state government to appoint a visually challenged woman as a school teacher on August 22, nearly a decade after her application for the post was wrongly rejected.

A bench of Justice Dixit Krishna Shripad noted that Prajnya Parimita Barik, the woman who had unsuccessfully applied for the post of a 'Sikshya Sahayak' in 2014, had previously approached the high court twice and gone before the authorities three times.

"She has been a relentless fighter for justice. The time spent in the legal battles fought one after another cannot be a ground for denying relief to the victorious party. Fruits of successful litigation, howsoever long the same be fought, ordinarily should reach the hands of ...