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National Legal Services Authority v. Union of India (2014) is a landmark judgement of the Supreme Court of India, which declared transgender people the 'third gender', affirmed that the fundamental rights granted under the Constitution of India will be equally applicable to them, and gave them the right to self-identification of their gender as male, female or third gender.
Website. nalsa.gov.in. The National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) is a statutory body of India established on 9 November 1995 under the Legal Services Authorities Act 1987. Its purpose is to provide free legal services to eligible candidates (defined in Section 12 of the Act), and to organize Lok Adalats for speedy resolution of cases.
Transgender people have a constitutional right to change their legal gender, and a third gender (non-binary) is recognised. [1][2] (National Legal Services Authority v. Union of India) Military. Openly homosexual people are banned [3] Discrimination protections.
On 15 April 2014, the Supreme Court of India delivered its judgment in National Legal Services Authority v. Union of India (NALSA v.UOI), in which it recognised the rights of transgender people in India and laid down a series of measures for securing transgender people's rights by mandating the prohibition of discrimination, recommending the creation of welfare policies, and reservations for ...
Legal Services Authorities are statutory bodies constituted in the states of India by the Legal Services Authorities Act 1987, as enshrined by article 39-A of the Constitution of India, for providing free legal services for the citizens. [1][2] These authorities give free legal aid to a person if he/she is not capable of bearing the expenditure.
Umang Poddar - BBC News, Hindi. October 30, 2024 at 5:35 AM. Wikipedia is locked in one of its biggest legal battles in India [Getty Images] Wikipedia is embroiled in a major legal battle in India ...
Legal Services Authorities Act 1987 was enacted by Parliament of India to provide legal support for free to the poor [2][3][4] and ensuring that it promotes justice based on equal opportunity, thus getting in effect Article 39-A of constitution. [5] To promote justice through free legal aid to the poorer,backward and weaker citizens of the ...
Keywords. Criminalization of Homosexuality, Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation. Navtej Singh Johar & Ors. v. Union of India thr. Secretary Ministry of Law and Justice (2018) is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of India that decriminalised all consensual sex among adults, including homosexual sex. [1]