The Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC) was ordered by the Orissa High Court on Monday to compensate Jyotirmayee Dutta, a candidate, for procedural errors in the assessment of her answer sheet from the Odisha Judicial Service (OJS) Examination-2022 with Rs 1 lakh.

According to the case details, the candidate took the OJS (Main) exam and received 53 on the "Law of Property" paper, just five marks short of qualifying. Seven months after the results were released, she submitted a request for a review, but the answer sheets were returned.

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 oversight prevented her from progressing to the next stage.

Upon filing a petition in August 2024, the Orissa High Court had her answer script independently evaluated by experts from three reputed universities. The evaluations confirmed the non-evaluation of the question, but even after adding the missed marks, Dutta still fell short by 1.5 marks.