Meet Ganga Kumari,  First Transgender police constable of Rajasthan
Meet Ganga Kumari, First Transgender police constable of Rajasthan
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24-year-old Ganga Kumari could have turn out to be the country’s first transgender to join the police force, but fate had other plans for. Following a long-drawn-out two-year legal- battle in the Rajasthan High Court, Kumari became the first transgender to be initiated into Rajasthan Police on Tuesday.

The Rajasthan High Court on Monday had issued order to the police department to appoint Ganga Kumari as a constable, after officials deprived of her a post because of her gender and reported lack of lucidity of rules in 2015. Expressing it a case of “gender partiality”, Justice Dinesh Mehta asked the force to employ Kumari within six weeks from the date of the order along with the notional reimbursement from year 2015.

The dweller of Raniwara in Jalore district of Rajasthan, Ganga Kumari was selected in the police recruitment examination for constables in 2013. However, her appointment was detained following the medical examination, which brought to the recruiters’ notice that she was a chronicler.

 GangaKumari, then, moved the High Court stating that in spite of being adequate and having eligibility, the Jalore police rejected to clear her appointment. The Supreme Court, in April 2015, had accredited transgender as ‘third gender’ that is neither male nor female.

Counselor Rituraj Singh for Ganga Kumari said it was for the first time that a eunuch attempted in police recruitment exams and became victorious. “But given the rules for appointment, the department was in perplexity, and in spite of passing the examination, Kumari was not appointed as constable,” he quoted 

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