Coming to the aid of a transgender, whose application for appearing in the examination for the post of Sub Inspector of Police, was rejected since her certificates had a male name, the Madras High Court directed officials to permit her to appear for the exam on Saturday.
The court also directed officials to allow several other petitioners to appear for the exam with certain conditions, even as their applications were rejected on the ground that supporting documents for their candidature uploaded online for the exam to be held on Saturday were not clear.
Allowing a petition by K. Prithika Yashini of Salem, Justice R. Mahadevan directed the Tamil Nadu Uniformed Services Recruitment Board (TNUSRB) officials to upload her hall ticket online by Friday and further directed the petitioner to appear at the examination centre with the government gazette showing the change in her name.
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In her petition, Ms. Yashini, a postgraduate diploma in Computer Applications, submitted that following a gender reassignment surgery, she had changed her name from K. Pradeep Kumar to K. Prithika Yashini and had made representations to educational institutions to change the name accordingly in the certificates. She had also moved the High Court, which gave a direction that her name be changed in all her certificates.
She applied for the post of Sub Inspector of Police on February 26, 2015 in the TNUSRB, which was rejected on the ground that her new name was not reflected in her certificates.
When the case came up for hearing on Thursday, counsel for petitioner Bhavani Subbarayan contended that she be allowed to appear for the exam as she had already obtained the government gazette to prove the change in her name.
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Two other categories of petitioners moved the High Court to allow them to appear for the exam. Their applications made online were rejected on the grounds that their documents uploaded were not clear and as for some serving police personnel, they had not obtained ‘No Objection Certificates’ for appearing in the exam.
Hearing their petitions, the judge directed officials to permit them to appear for the exam on producing the original documents before the exam on Saturday.