Awareness program on the Rights of LGBT Community organized by West District Police

Awareness program on the Rights of LGBT Community organized by West District Police on Tuesday.

West Tripura District Police organized an awareness program on the Rights of LGBT Community today, the 18th January, 2022 from 1100 hrs to 1400 hrs in the West District Police Conference Hall at A. D. Nagar, Agartala.

A total of about 40 (forty) police officials of West Tripura District Police attended the programme. In Charge SP (West) Shri Amitabha Pal, Shri Anirban Das, Addl. SP, Smti Mina Kumari Debbarma, Addi. SP also attended the programme.

The prominent LGBT activists of Tripura including Mrs. Sneha Gupta Roy, Shri Amit Kumar Choudhury, Shri Siddhartha Sankar Deb and Shri Subhajit Datta attended the programme. They shared problems faced by LGBT community.

A detailed discussion about various aspects as mentioned in the landmark judgment (NALSA Vs Union of India & Others) delivered by the Supreme Court of India in the year 2014 on the Rights of LGBT community was made in the conference. All the SDPOS and Officers-in-charge / representatives of all the Police Stations / Out Posts attended the programme. They got educated about various legal and human rights of LGBT community.

After discussion, a Question-Answer session was also organized in which clarification asked by SDPOs and OCs was answered by the LGBT activists, Shri Subrata Chakraborty, AIGP (Crime) and Shri Amitaba Pal, In Charge SP (West). It is expected that the awareness programme will result in better understanding of the rights of the LGBT community.