Delhi: Dispute between transgender individuals and police escalates at Dwarka

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07/23/22

A dispute early Friday morning at a police station in Dwarka between transgender individuals from the Garima Greh shelter and police escalated, with the transgender individuals alleging that they were beaten up and abused while police claimed the former had acted aggressively and obstructed them. The transgender individuals claimed they had come to speak to a trans man who was taken from the shelter as his parents had issued a missing persons complaint regarding him. The head of the Mitr Trust administering the shelter, Rudrani, claimed, “The 21-year-old came to us on July 18 and said his parents had kept him locked up for the past two years.

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