JUDGMENT :-

(Prayer: Petition filed under Article 226 of The Constitution of India praying to issue a Writ of Mandamus directing the third respondent to include the petitioner’s name in the final selection list and send her to participate in the Fourth World Deaf Athletics Championship, which is scheduled to be conducted at Lublin, Poland from 23.08.2021 to 28.08.2021.)

“Disabled women struggle with both the oppression of being women in male dominated societies and the oppression of being disabled in societies dominated by the able-bodied”

- Susan Wendell [Wendell, Susan. “Toward a Feminist Theory of Disability.” Gender Basics: Feminist Perspectives on Women and Men. Ed. A Minas, Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1993.],

2. That in effect, it explains the tribulations faced by the petitioner, who finds it impossible to speak or listen, but able to achieve gold and silver medals in long jump and high jump at the State and National levels, having been denied the opportunity of participation in the Fourth World Deaf Athletics Championship, 2021, held at Lublin, Poland and being able to participate in the same only on the strength of the interim order dated 13.08.2021, on kn