Mumbai: Bombay High Court has allowed a 26-year-old woman to “go with” a transgender friend after he told the judges that he did not want to go with his parents.
HC said he was a major and his friend was willing to take care of him.
“Because the girl is a major, she will be in Liberty to act as she wishes,” said the HC bench from Judge S P Deshmukh and NB Suryawanshi in Aurangabad on Friday.
The command was in a petition for Habeas Corpus (producing the body of illegal detention) submitted by 29-year-old Transperson who was born as a woman and identified as a man.
He is a graduate of art who lives in a shelter in Mumbai named Transgender Stormare, Equity and Empowerment of Trust Foundation.
He submitted a petition before the Aurangabad bench from HC, said the woman It was detained illegally by his parents in the jurisdiction of the bench.
His parents are “pressurized ‘to get married, the petition accuses.
He also said he made a living while educating himself with additional skills for better employment opportunities and the HC noted the girl also “seems firm”.
Both had met in June 2019 when he worked in another state and he was based in Aurangabad, preparing for the Tuan Technology program.
They become friends through shared interest.
In a pandemic, he moved with his parents.
The petition said the duo met in February 2021 in Parbhani and traveled to Uttar Pradesh through Mumbai and he told his parents that he had left home voluntarily.
In his father’s complaint, the police took him back to his parents’ house.
The petition added him back to leave home in April and both decided to run a “partnership act” in another city to live together as an adult agreeing.
His father submitted a report of the missing person later in June.
He was in Rajasthan during the local court directing him to return to his parents’ house.
When brought back to his parents on June 22, he wrote to the rights of NGO women, said the petition.
Because the girl expressed worries for her safety, HC directed the Aurangabad police chief to “protect the girl to the destination he wanted to visit.”