Patna HC Rebukes Bihar Govt For Issuing Recruitment Forms Without 3rd Gender Column
The exclusionary move by the government has triggered a bigger question of reservation.
Representative image of an empty exam hall. Photo: USAID/Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)
Rights05/Jan/2021
Patna: Application forms issued by the Bihar government for an exam to fill up constable posts in the state did not have the option for candidates to identify themselves as members of the third gender, leading the Patna high court to rebuke the government over the exclusion.
Patna-based Veera Yadav (30) had filed an appeal in the high court in the first week of December highlighting that there was no separate column for the third gender in constable exam application forms.
An Interfaith Couple Faced Violence, a Miscarriage and Arrest. We Can t Say No Harm Done .
Courts, if they are to do their duty, must order a countrywide probe into the violent Hindu supremacist outfits that terrorise interfaith couples, and their enablers embedded in the police and administration.
Rashid and his brother Salim reuniting with their family after being released from custody. Photo: Kavita Krishnan
Women21/Dec/2020
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