Delhi HC To Hear A Plea Challenging CBSE And DU Rules That Restrict Change Of Gender On Education Records
5 years, 3 months ago

Delhi HC To Hear A Plea Challenging CBSE And DU Rules That Restrict Change Of Gender On Education Records

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A transgender woman has moved a PIL before the Delhi High Court challenging rules of Department of Publication, Government of India, which mandatorily requires Sex Reassignment Surgery for changing the gender of a person on official records. In the present PIL, the Petitioner, who identifies as a hijra, seeks to challenge the Guidelines for Notification of Public Notice for Change of Sex alongwith the Specimen Proforma, as well as the notifications issued by Delhi University and CBSE amending the rule regarding change of name or gender. The said Department, however, denied her plea by citing a proforma which mandatorily requires Sex Reassignment Surgery as a prerequisite for filing an application for gender change. The Petitioner is also aggrieved by the amendments made by the Delhi University and Central Board of Secondary Education regarding the change of gender in educational documents.

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Man Claims Wife is Transgender, Moves High Court Seeking Medical Examination
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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Man Claims Wife is Transgender, Moves High Court Seeking Medical Examination

Hindustan Times  

A man has moved the Delhi high court seeking directions to the Delhi police to get his wife's gender tested at a Central government hospital. He claims that his wife is a transgender individual and that this has caused him mental trauma, prevented the consummation of their marriage, and led to various false legal proceedings against him.

Transgender Marriage: Husband Asks Court to Examine Wife's Gender for Medical Examination
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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Transgender Marriage: Husband Asks Court to Examine Wife's Gender for Medical Examination

Deccan Chronicle  

A husband has approached the Delhi High Court, seeking a court order for a medical examination of his transgender wife at a Central Government hospital. The petition argues that the concealment of his wife's gender identity caused him emotional trauma, prevented their marriage, and led to false legal proceedings. The advocate emphasizes the importance of balancing the rights of both …

Right To Be Identified By One's Name Fundamental To Individual's Identity: Delhi High Court
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Right To Be Identified By One's Name Fundamental To Individual's Identity: Delhi High Court

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The Delhi High Court has recently observed that name of an individual is an identity marker and the right to be identified by one's name is fundamental to one's very identity.“It partakes, therefore, of a primordial necessity, and the Court has, when petitioned in that regard, to ensure that the request, if genuine, is acceded to,” Justice C Hari Shankar …

Delhi High Court hears plea against conditions on married women using maiden surname
10 months, 1 week ago

Delhi High Court hears plea against conditions on married women using maiden surname

India Today  

The Delhi High Court has issued a notice on a plea challenging the government's notification for obtaining a maiden surname by a woman post-marriage. The plea, filed by Divya Modi, alleged the notification imposed gender bias and "impermissible discrimination" by imposing additional and disproportionate requisites exclusively on women. "This notification poses an obstacle to the Petitioner's right to change her …

Need Time To Develop Policy For Fresh Passports To Individuals Undergoing Sex Change Abroad: MEA To Delhi High Court
1 year, 1 month ago

Need Time To Develop Policy For Fresh Passports To Individuals Undergoing Sex Change Abroad: MEA To Delhi High Court

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The Ministry of External Affairs has told the Delhi High Court that it needs time to thoroughly examine the suggestion of developing a new policy on issuance of new passport to those who undergo medical procedures for sex change abroad in order to verify their identities as the biometrics do not change after such surgeries.The court has been informed that …

Permissible to change surname over caste prejudices: Delhi HC
1 year, 6 months ago

Permissible to change surname over caste prejudices: Delhi HC

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi Every individual has the right to an honourable and respectable identity in society guaranteed under the right to life, the Delhi high court has said, while ruling that it is permissible for an individual to change his or her surname in order to not be identified with a particular caste that may cause prejudice. Permissible to change surname …

High Court Gives Delhi Govt Four Months To Decide on Recognizing Transgenders As Third Gender on DTC Bus Tickets
2 years, 2 months ago

High Court Gives Delhi Govt Four Months To Decide on Recognizing Transgenders As Third Gender on DTC Bus Tickets

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The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Delhi Government to decide in four months a representation seeking recognition of transgender community as a third gender on the tickets of DTC buses and a provision for free travel for them.A division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad disposed of a public interest litigation filed by …

Insisting On Transgender Person To Produce "Gender Re-Assignment Certificate" For Passport Prima Facie Violates Article 21: Delhi High Court
2 years, 8 months ago

Insisting On Transgender Person To Produce "Gender Re-Assignment Certificate" For Passport Prima Facie Violates Article 21: Delhi High Court

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The Delhi High Court on Monday observed that the Passport Rues, insofar as they require a Transgender person to produce certificate of Gender Re-assignment Surgery, is prima facie in teeth of the Supreme Court's judgment in NALSA v. Union of India and is violative of Article 21 of the Constitution.A Bench led by Acting Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi observed,"You can't …

Delhi High Court Issues Notice On Plea Seeking Ban On Medically Unnecessary Sex-Selective Surgeries On Intersex Infants, Children
3 years, 4 months ago

Delhi High Court Issues Notice On Plea Seeking Ban On Medically Unnecessary Sex-Selective Surgeries On Intersex Infants, Children

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The Delhi High Court today issued notice on a petition seeking to prohibit sex-selective surgeries on inter-sex infants and children, except in cases of life threatening situations. A division bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh issued notice notice to the Respondents- Delhi Government and Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights, asking them to respond by …

Drastic Psychological Impacts: Plea In Delhi High Court Seeks Ban On Medically Unnecessary Sex-Selective Surgeries On Intersex Infants, Children
3 years, 4 months ago

Drastic Psychological Impacts: Plea In Delhi High Court Seeks Ban On Medically Unnecessary Sex-Selective Surgeries On Intersex Infants, Children

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A PIL has been filed before the Delhi High Court seeking a ban on medically unnecessary, sex-selective surgeries on intersex Infants and children except in cases of life threatening situations. Moreover, a direction to the Delhi Government and Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights to frame detailed policy or guidelines specifying the conditions when medical surgery on intersex infants …

Delhi High Court Seeks Centre's Response On Plea Challenging Requirement Of Sex Change Certificate For Re-Issuance Of Passport To Transgender Persons
3 years, 5 months ago

Delhi High Court Seeks Centre's Response On Plea Challenging Requirement Of Sex Change Certificate For Re-Issuance Of Passport To Transgender Persons

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The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to respond on a petition seeking issuance of a new passport to a Transgender woman with the required changes in name and gender without insisting on the production of sex-change certificate.A Division Bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh allowed the request made by Centre's counsel, Soumya Singh, …

Delhi High Court Allows Early Hearing Appeal Of Plea For CBSE Class X Boards' Evaluation Scheme's Modification
3 years, 6 months ago

Delhi High Court Allows Early Hearing Appeal Of Plea For CBSE Class X Boards' Evaluation Scheme's Modification

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A division bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh of the Delhi High Court today allowed an early hearing application moved by the petitioners, "Justice For All", in a petition for the modification of the evaluation scheme of the Central Board of Secondary Education's Class X Board Examination.The court was earlier posting the matter for July 19, …

Transgender Person Moves Delhi High Court Challenging Insistence On Sex Change Certificate For Re-Issuance Of Passport
3 years, 7 months ago

Transgender Person Moves Delhi High Court Challenging Insistence On Sex Change Certificate For Re-Issuance Of Passport

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A Plea has been moved before the Delhi High Court challenging Passport Rules, 1980 to the extent that it makes it mandatory for a Transgender to obtain a sex change certificate so that one could be re-issued a passport recognizing one as a "Female". Brief facts of the matter in hand The petitioner, Lasya Kahli Singh self-declared her gender and …

’Asking for the impossible’: Delhi HC tells DU on changing student’s name
4 years, 2 months ago

’Asking for the impossible’: Delhi HC tells DU on changing student’s name

Live Mint  

The Delhi High Court Friday directed Delhi University to change the name of one of its students without insisting upon a change in his CBSE records, saying such a requirement amounted to "asking for the impossible". Justice Jayant Nath said the student passed out from class 12 in 2018 and was seeking a change in his name in 2019 while …

Allow class 10, 12 students to change name, surname in marksheets, certificates: Delhi HC to CBSE
4 years, 2 months ago

Allow class 10, 12 students to change name, surname in marksheets, certificates: Delhi HC to CBSE

India TV News  

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday suggested to the Central Board of Secondary Education to put in place a system for students to change their names, surnames or other details in their class 10 and 12 mark sheets and certificates. "It may be good for the lawyers, but not for the institution," the bench added and suggested to the Board …

Allow Class 10, 12 Students to Change Name, Surname in Marksheets, Certificates: Delhi HC to CBSE
4 years, 2 months ago

Allow Class 10, 12 Students to Change Name, Surname in Marksheets, Certificates: Delhi HC to CBSE

News 18  

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday suggested to the Central Board of Secondary Education to put in place a system for students to change their names, surnames or other details in their class 10 and 12 mark sheets and certificates. "It may be good for the lawyers, but not for the institution," the bench added and suggested to the Board …

PIL Filed in SC Seeking Equal Protection of Law to Transgenders in Sexual Offence Cases
4 years, 3 months ago

PIL Filed in SC Seeking Equal Protection of Law to Transgenders in Sexual Offence Cases

News 18  

New Delhi: A PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court for equal protection of law to people belonging to the third gender, alleging that there was no penal provision which protects them from offences of sexual assault. “In spite of declaring transgender people to be a ‘third gender’ by this court, there is no provision / section in the …

Delhi High Court dismisses plea seeking rules for LGBT marriage
5 years, 6 months ago

Delhi High Court dismisses plea seeking rules for LGBT marriage

India TV News  

The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation seeking directions to the government to frame family laws for LGBT relationships and form a committee to look into these issues. Patel and Justice C. Harishankar turned down the plea filed by Tajinder Singh after noting centre's response in the matter stating that drafting of law was the prerogative …

India’s transgender community celebrates victory, but needs more
5 years, 7 months ago

India’s transgender community celebrates victory, but needs more

Al Jazeera  

Karnataka state recently ruled that education institutes must allow people to officially change name and gender. Kothari, who worked on the case that led to the landmark judgement decriminalising homosexuality in India in September 2018, argued for Jeeva in the Karnataka High Court and won the case. “The writ petition was filed just for Jeeva but the judge was actually …

Govt Should Take Steps To Include Column For Transgenders In Online Form For Name Change In Official Gazette: Bombay HC
5 years, 8 months ago

Govt Should Take Steps To Include Column For Transgenders In Online Form For Name Change In Official Gazette: Bombay HC

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While hearing a petition filed by a 29-year-old transgender, the Bombay High Court has observed that the state government should take steps to include a column for transgenders in the online application form for change of name in the official gazette. According to the petition, the petitioner's application to the Directorate of Government and Printing Stationery to change the name …

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