India, Feb. 5 -- The Orissa High Court on Monday directed the Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC) to pay Rs 1 lakh as compensation to a candidate named Jyotirmayee Dutta for procedural lapses in the evaluation of her answer sheet from the Odisha Judicial Service (OJS) Examination-2022.

The case details stated that the candidate had appeared for the OJS (Main) exam and scored 53 marks in the 'Law of Property' paper, narrowly missing qualifying by five marks. She subsequently filed for a review but was handed over the answer sheets seven months after the publication of the results.

Regardless, Dutta discovered that a question worth 12.5 marks in the same paper was not evaluated. Despite her impressive scores in other papers, this over...