Family pension available to transgender applicant: HC

Kantaro Kondagari @ Kajo Vs State of Odisha (Orissa High Court)

That the petitioner as a transgender has every right to choose her gender and accordingly, she has submitted her application for grant of family pension under Section 56(1) of Odisha Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1992.

Facts-

The present writ petition has been filed by the petitioner with a prayer for a direction to the opposite parties to sanction family pension in favour

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