Legal Services Body In Bengal Gets Its First Transgender Advocate
Ankani Biswas, however, claimed it was the first such instance where a transgender advocate has been made a part of any state legal services authority in the country. Kolkata: West Bengal Legal Services Authority has got its first transgender advocate with the empanelment of Ankani Biswas by Calcutta High Court Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal, its member secretary Raju Mukherjee said here on Thursday. Mr Biswas, however, claimed it was the first such instance where a transgender advocate has been made a part of any state legal services authority in the country. "The Acting Chief Justice, who is the patron-in-chief and executive chairman of West Bengal State Legal Services Authority, approved the empanelment of Ankani Biswas alias Ankan on Wednesday," Mr Mukherjee said. The Supreme Court had in a landmark judgment in 2014 declared that transgenders would henceforth be treated as third gender. It also gave them the right to self-identification as male, female or third gende...