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S. A. BOBDE, A. S. BOPANNA, V. RAMASUBRAMANIAN
ANKITA MEENA – Appellant
Versus
UNIVERSITY OF DELHI – Respondent
ORDER :
V. Ramasubramanian, J.
1. Challenging an order of the learned single judge, confirmed by the division bench in an intra-court appeal, refusing to interfere with the decision of the University denying permission to her to appear in the 4th Semester LLB Examination, a student has come up with the above SLP.
2. We have heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned counsel for the University.
3. The petitioner joined the 3-year LLB Course at Law Centre-II, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi in August, 2016. By the time she joined the course she was already married for about 5 months.
4. The petitioner completed the first 3 semesters without any hindrance. However, she fell short of the required attendance during the 4th Semester, due to two difficulties. One was that she gave birth to a baby on 22.02.2018, disabling her to attend the classes till the end of March, 2018. The second difficulty was that the Delhi University Teachers’ Association went on a strike from 16.03.2018 and hence the University could not conduct the minimum number of classes as prescribed by Rul
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