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The petitioner had filed a name change application for their educational documents, but the Regional Secretary, Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad, rejected the petitioner’s application, holding that the relevant provisions did not provide any procedure for correction of name in educational documents at a belated stage.
“If a certificate, as sought by the petitioners, advances the welfare, interests, and rights of the petitioners or the class/category they fall in, particularly when their rights originate from the Articles of the Constitution, without offending any of the rights of the third parties and without doing violence to any statutory provisions, the Court need not hesitate to step in and to issue appropriate directions to issue the certificate.”
The applicant contended that their gender identity and medical condition made them vulnerable to harassment and ridicule in society and in jail.