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Kochi, March 23 The Kerala High Court has upheld the State Administrative Tribunal's interim order to the Public Service Commission (PSC) to consider the job application of a transgender person.Arjun Geetha who is a transman (assigned female at birth but identifies as a man) was an aspirant for a job with the Kerala police for the post of sub-inspector.He was successful in submitting the application but the notification did not mention physical standards for transgender persons. Hence, it was argued by Geetha that by not providing for relaxed physical requirement for transgender persons, the notification was bad in law.For the posts of woman police constable and army police sub- inspector (trainee), he was unable to apply as he was informed that he was ineligible because of his gender identity even though the latter position did not specify any impediment to apply merely because he is a transman.The KAT passed an interim order in favour of Geetha which made the Kerala PSC move the present appeal before the High Court.The Kerala HC while dismissing the appeal of the PSC said that the KAT while passing the order correctly followed the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019.The Court stated that the Special Rules, 1984 applicable to recruitment, which were relied upon by the Kerala PSC doesn't restrict the constitutional applicability of the Transgender Act of 2019."The order under review before us is the interim order of the Tribunal under challenge. We do not want to restrict the case of the transgender through the prism of Special Rules on which several grounds are raised and argued before us. The view of the Tribunal is within the framework of the Constitution of India and the act of Parliament," said the High Court.The Court noted that the Kerala PSC has only looked at the ineligibility of Geetha who is a transgender person, through the prism of either General rules or Special rules.Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

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National :Kerala HC upholds KAT order to consider application of transgender

Kochi, March 23 The Kerala High Court has upheld the State Administrative Tribunal's interim order to the Public ... ...