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KALYAN RAI SURANA, SUSMITA PHUKAN KHAUND
Swati Bidhan Baruah D/o Supti Ranjan Baruah – Appellant
Versus
State Of Assam – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
K.R.Surana, J
Heard the petitioner-in-person, who is an advocate. Also heard Mr. D. Nath, learned Senior Govt. Advocate.
2) By filing this writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the petitioner has made two prayers, viz., (a) for directing the Deputy Commissioner of Police (West), Guwahati to conduct an enquiry and prejudice caused to the petitioner and to take disciplinary action against the second officer-in-charge for the same; and (b) to direct the Police Commissioner, being the head of Guwahati City Police to transfer the case to All Women Police Station for proper investigation of the same.
3) The petitioner projects herself to be a transgirl and by citing the decision of the Supreme Court of India in the case of National Legal Services Authority v. Union of India & Ors., (2014) 5 SCC 438, it has been submitted that she is entitled to be treated as a “third gender”.
4) It may be mentioned that on 07.09.2023, when the matter was called, the petitioner-in-person had made a prayer for in-camera hearing in the Judge’s Chamber as submissions made in the open Court may cause her some embarrassment. The in-camera hearing in Judge’s Chamber was refused, bu
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