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Title: HC orders compensation, action in transgender's suicide case
Post by: LostInTime on July 11, 2007, 07:34:27 AM
New Kerala (http://www.newkerala.com/news5.php?action=fullnews&id=45510)

Madras High Court today asked the Tamil Nadu Goverment to pay a compensation of Rs five lakh to the petitioner in a case in which a transgender committed suicide after he was harassed by the police and directed discipilnary action against the erring officials.

Delivering the order, after hearing a writ petition filed by Jayalakshmi sister of Pandian, who committed suicide, a Division Bench comprising Chief Justice A P Shah and Justice P Jyothimani said considering the facts and circumstances of the case, it was not in dispute that Pandian was a transgender.