A Delhi-based legal journalist and researcher, Karan Tripathi filed a petition in the Delhi High Court last month, seeking the inclusion of data on the number of transgender prisoners in the upcoming Prison Statistics of India report, brought out regularly by the NCRB. In response, the central body under the aegis of the ministry of home affairs, said it would start doing that with immediate effect. In this episode, Dhamini speaks to Karan to understand why he filed the petition, and what he hoped would come out of it.
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