Kerala High Court rules in favour of transgender woman wanting to join NCC
High Court was hearing a petition filed by Haneefa challenging a section of the NCC act that only allowed males and females to enrol with cadet corps. (Image Source: File Photo)
Updated: Mar 16, 2021, 09:59 AM IST
The Kerala High Court on Monday ruled in favour of a transgender woman who sorted the court s intervention for admission into the National Cadet Corps, the youth wing of the Indian armed forces. In its ruling, the court said that the fact that the NCC act does not recognize the third gender cannot be a reasonable justification to deny entry to a trans person.
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