West Tripura District Police organized an awareness program on the Rights of LGBT Community on Tuesday in the West District Police Conference Hall at A. D. Nagar, Agartala.
The awareness programme was held in the wake of recent controversy involving some of the Police personnel and four LGBT community members in Agartala. The members of LGBT community, after came out of a city hotel, were taken to the West Police Station and were reportedly hackled by some Police personnel. The incident sparked resentment among the people and role of the Police came under criticism.
In today’s awareness programme, a total of about 40 police officials of West Tripura District Police attended the programme. In-Charge SP (West) Amitabha Pal, Anirban Das, Addl. SP, Mina Romani Debbarma, Addl. SP also attended the programme.
Prominent LGBT activists of Tripura including Sneha Gupta Roy, Amit Kumar Choudhury, Siddhartha Sankar Deb and 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, Subrata Chakraborty, AIGP (Crime) and 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.