RAJIV SAHAI ENDLAW, A.K. SIKRI

1. The petitioner herein is a Judicial Officer in Delhi Judicial Service. After successfully undergoing the selection process, she was appointed as Judicial Officer. At that time, she was pursuing her course in Masters of Law (L.L.M). She successfully completed the said course in the year 2009. With a desire to pursue higher education, she applied to the respondent University of Delhi for being enrolled for the Ph.D. Degree Programme on 27th July, 2009. For pursuing this Ph.D course, she had applied to her employer viz High Court of Delhi for permission to pursue the said course. This permission was duly granted to her by the High Court on 19th September, 2009 wherein it was mentioned that the permission was subject to the condition that “joining of course by her should not affect her disposal and maintaining of official punctuality” and „course timing should not overlap normal court working hours” and no study leave would be granted to her except the leave for actual date of examination.

2. It would be pertinent to mention at this stage that just before the petitioner had applied for enrollment for the Ph. D. Degree Pr