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2000 transgenders excluded from Assam NRC wait for SC judgement

2000 transgenders excluded from Assam NRC wait for SC judgement

| @indiablooms | 18 Sep 2019, 12:07 pm

Guwahati, Sep 18 (IBNS): Around 2000 transgenders in Assam, who were excluded from the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) list, which was published on Aug 31, are still hoping that the Supreme Court will modify the appeals process of the NRC for inclusion their names in the list.

Around 2000 transgender are among the 19 lakh people who were left out from the final NRC.

Before the final draft of NRC was published, the transgender community of Assam had immediately moved an intervention application in the Supreme Court and the intervention application has not yet been dismissed.

The 2000 transgender, who were excluded from the final NRC list, are still hoping that the apex court will consider the matter.

Assam's first transgender judge and petitioner Swati Bidhan Baruah said: "We are hoping that the Supreme Court will take into consideration about our intervention application and will make a necessary reasonable order on that, so that, the transgender will not be excluded from the NRC.”

There are around 20,000 transgender in Assam.


(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)

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