Santola Padhya is a familiar face to the residents of Bajhang headquarters, who hangs around the District Court Bajhang complex with the support of a stick with an old, thin body. Despite being illiterate, Padhya, who fought a tireless legal battle for four decades, died on Monday evening. She died at her daughter's house in Kanchanpur Jhalari. Saru Upadhyaya, Padhya's daughter, said that he died due to a fever that had been coming for a month. His last rites were performed in Mahakali river on Tuesday.

Born in the year 1987, her house is located in the present Thalara Rural Municipality-8 Devasthali. Most of the women of Bajhang are still suffering from the injustice and oppression of the society due to the pressure and shame. But Padhya, who was born in a remote village, is the kind of woman who 46 years ago, without the help of society and family, took a strong determination to fight for her rights and finally succeeded.

is about the year 2036 . Her husband died the year before that. Daughter Saru was already married. She was alone at home. Neighbor Vishnu Bhakta Padhya came to Santola's house . 'Now you have no one . We will take care of you and nurture you. "Don't worry about anything," he said. In return, she stipulated that her husband's entire property should be transferred to her name.

Santola flatly rejected this condition . When he did not obey, they started threatening him . Two years ago, in a meeting with Kantipur, Santola said, "I can enjoy my husband's share in any way, so don't worry about it".

was going on like this. One night, Vishnu Padhya and his family suddenly entered Santola's house. One person covered his mouth with his hand . Others started beating . She fainted . "She was thrown into the river near the village as she was dead," she said in that conversation with Kantipur, "My luck is strong." She has not been able to stay in the village since then. All the property had been confiscated by the neighbors .

Illiterate, she started appealing to various offices of the district asking for justice. Someone jokingly sent that justice will be done in veterinary and agricultural office too. After the incident, he spent 4 years looking for the office of justice. Around the year 2040, with the help of a helper, she registered a case related to confiscation of property in the district court of Bajhang. The case was going on, all his land had been registered in his name by the opponent together with the staff of the survey in 2049. He got into more legal trouble . Although the court decided that he should get the property, he had to cancel the registration again and file another case to register the land in his own name because the property before that was not separated. The case reached the Supreme Court.

Single and illiterate born in a difficult geography like Bajhang, she had to suffer a lot to fight this legal battle. Doti's Dipayal, which is the regional headquarters, had to be walked from Bajhang. Asking for rice from village to village, chewing the same rice, she repeated Dipayal and Bajhang for years. Even though he had to sleep in the forest starving for several nights, he did not give up hope of justice.

She reached Kathmandu three times by walking halfway and begging someone. After about 17 years of struggle, the Supreme Court decided in his favor in 2067. She got her husband's land. His fight was not over by getting only land . The house where her husband left her because she couldn't live in it was destroyed . She did not get to use any of the wealth in the house. After getting the land, she reached the door of the court again in 2071 asking to get that property. People who know Padhya say that even though the district court ruled in his favor, this case is still under consideration in the Supreme Court.