Chandigarh, April 11 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court (HC) has dismissed a plea from an Iranian woman, who enrolled herself in Panjab University in 2012 for PhD, seeking more time to complete her course and longer stay at PU.

She had approached high court in 2023, demanding that the university be directed to allow her to stay till the completion of her course and further waive the penalty imposed upon her for overstay, etc.

As per university, petitioner Mehri Maleki Dizicheh enrolled herself as a PhD research scholar with the History department in 2012. As per the rules, she had to complete her study/course within eight years, however, owing to various reasons, she could not complete the same.

Reason cited by the student were of ou...