Gurgaon: Relative, accomplice barges into shelter home; beat up two transgender men

Gurgaon: In yet another atrocity case against the transgender, two transgender men filed a police complaint alleging that an elderly man forcibly barged into shelter home, took them to a police station and beat them up. The accused is the father of another transgender man, who was residing at their shelter home.

In the police complaint, the transgender men, who are board members of an NGO run by transgender persons, said that a transgender man (24) had taken up voluntarily residence at their shelter home in July 2022, The Indian Express reported.

The complainant alleged: “On September 1 , the father of the transgender man, who was in a police uniform and claimed to be a police inspector from UP, along with his wife, son and two other men, barged into the NGO’s shelter home in Gurgaon to meet their child.”

“The transgender man had left his home in Lucknow of his own accord and came to stay at the shelter home. On finding out that he was not at the shelter home, the father and his accomplices beat me including my associate and forcefully dragged us from the shelter home and bundled us into a jeep. They threatened to put us in jail for kidnapping. They took us to a police station in Gurgaon, where the men slapped and threatened me,” alleged the complainant in the police complaint as quoted by The Indian Express.

Meanwhile, the Gurgaon police are investigating the case. A complaint has been received whereas an FIR is yet to be registered.