1. The petitioner has come forward to challenge an order dated 7.4.2007 made in P.R.No.66 of 2006 and the consequential order passed by the third respondent, dated 7.4.2007, wherein and by which a major penalty of removal was passed, and thereafter it was modified by the first respondent by an order dated 16.10.2008 into one of compulsory retirement from service and she seeks to set aside the same and for a consequential direction to reinstate her in service with all consequential benefits.

2. The writ petition was admitted on 22.10.2009. On notice from this court, the third respondent has filed a counter affidavit, dated 18.3.2011 on behalf of all respondents.

3. The facts leading to filing the case are as follows:

The petitioner joined the service as a Grade I Woman Police Constable on 1.7.1977. She was promoted as an Head Constable in the year 1986. She was further promoted as a Sub Inspector of Police during 1994. While she was working as a Women Sub Inspector of Police attached to F-1 Chintatripet Police Station, it was claimed that she had absented herself from duty without submitting any leave letter or without permission from the authorities consecutively for more