Gender and Sexuality

Often abandoned by their biological families, transgender people grow up amidst others like themselves, but always largely outside the system, and hence rarely have any documents

The Delhi District Court today, heard submissions to decide upon the quantum of sentence to be given to ex-MLA of BJP, Kuldeep Sengar, for being convicted on charges of rape under IPC as well as under POCSO.

We awoke today to the shocking news of the deaths of the four suspects in the murder and rape of the veterinarian last week. They were killed at 3 am purportedly while trying to ‘escape’ from the scene of crime, where they had been taken for a dead-of-night reconstruction of the crime of rape and murder at the scene of the offence.

This is not the first time that guns and the bullet have been used to get at those labelled criminals. For Sajjanar, handling the high profile rape case of Hyderabad veterinary doctor, of the three ‘encounters’ of non-Maoists in Telangana in 10 years, two were led by the same cop

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She was on her way to the hearing in the case when an accused who was out on bail got together with his accomplices and set her on fire.

The Commission has asked for a report from the U.P. police

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In response to an unstarred question asked in the Lok Sabha with regards to transgender participation in higher education, HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ said there are no trans students in any Indian central universities. He could only offer up empty banalities when asked about planned measures to improve the statistics.

The accused approached the girl near her school and lured her away with chocolates