1. This Criminal Original Petition is filed to permit the Petitioner/A7 to pursue her Ph.D Studies in the Chalmer’s University, Sweden, for the academic years May 2019 to December 2023.

2. The facts leading to filing of this Criminal Original Petition are as follows:-

(a) The Petitioner/A7 has completed B.Tech (Chemical Engineering) in the year 2000 and also completed M.Tech (Chemical Engineering) in IIT, Kanpur, in the year 2002 and thereafter, she pursued her Ph.D in IIT, Madras, however, due to her employment, she discontinued the same. She has been appointed as an Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering Department in the Anna University, by letter dated, 26.11.2014 and she joined duty on 05.12.2014.

(b) While so, based on a complaint, a First Information Report, dated 31.07.2018, vide No.09/AC/2018/CCI, was registered against her, arraying her as A7, for the offence under Sections 120B, 167, 201, 420, 468, 471 of IPC and Section 13(2) read with 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, alleging that the Petitioner/A7 along with others, being Public Servant have committed the offences of criminal conspiracy, framing an incorrect documents with intent to cause