Eunuchs Raped by local Gang & assaulted by hired goons ??

BANGALORE: They are discriminated against every step of the way but are forced to live with it. Here's a voice for them from none other than a senior judge. "Transgenders should be given a choice to select the gender of their choice. There is also a need to make reservation for the minority sex. They should come under the same category as widows, Army persons or handicapped," said Justice Manjula Chellur, senior judge of Karnataka high court. 

Speaking at Navjeevana - organized by Initiatives for Development Foundation (IDF), she said: "The police department must be sensitized towards this community. Also, they should be given access to basic social and economic rights such as passport, voter's ID card and ration card. They are visible (to the eyes), but invisible in every other aspect because they don't yet have social acceptance. The social welfare department is not taking enough steps in favour of this community. If proper steps will not be taken in due time, then I am considering filing a public interest litigation (PIL) for them," said Justice Chellur. She also said that connecting transgenders with the mainstream is required. "Society should be humane to them," she said. 

C Manjula, chairperson of Karnataka Mahila Aayog, said transgenders must be brought to the mainstream. "There should not be prejudice against them. Supporting them will help bring change in the society," she said.
Well-known Kannada actress Jayanthi, a supporter of transgenders, said addressing them: "It is not your fault that you are born this way. Learn to walk proud."

Priyanka, the famous radio jockey and first transgender to undergo a sex change operation, shared her thoughts with the audience. She said: "There is a misconception that we can only be beggars or sex workers, but now others can take my example." She also gave credit for her success to Sangama and Samara, the two organizations working with the transgender community." 

 

Navjeevana is a Hivos-sponsored initiative of IDF to explore and expand livelihood options for transgenders (in and around Bangalore) whose known sources of income currently are sex work and begging. 

KOLKATA, India (AP) - Eunuchs in India are demanding an end to discrimination against them and access to government welfare programs.

The term eunuch is used in India to describe transvestites, transsexuals and others who identify themselves as neither male nor female but as a members of a third gender.

The term eunuch is used in India to describe transvestites, transsexuals and others who identify themselves as neither male nor female but as a members of a third gender.

Eunuchs pose at the entrance of the venue of the All India Eunuch Conference, demanding an end to discrimination against them and access to government welfare programs, in Pandua, 75 kilometers (47 miles) north of Kolkata, India.  (Source:Bikas Das)

Sobha Haldar, the secretary of a eunuch group, said around 3,000 eunuchs were meeting in Kolkata on Monday to draft a strategy to highlight the poverty, discrimination and sexual abuse faced by them.

The eunuchs are demanding a quota of government jobs, health care and subsidized food.

There are about 700,000 eunuchs living in India. They traditionally survive by begging, dancing at weddings, or blessing newborn babies, and are frequently subjected to discrimination.

CHENNAI: Amal Raj, a 35-year-old transgender of Pallikaranai, was allegedly raped by a gang in the city on Wednesday night. The condition of the victim, who was admitted to the Stanley Medical College Hospital, is said to be critical. A local gang which had reportedly been forcing the transgender to sell a 1200 sq ft plot of land in Pallikaranai is being suspected for the crime.


"Amal Raj who on Wednesday evening went to a shop for some purchases later disappeared. His parents Fernandez and Phelomina, who searched for him all night, found him unconscious in a vacant plot of land early on Thursday. Medical examination confirmed that he had been sexually assaulted," said the police. A case was registered and investigations begun.


It is pity. Even "transgenders" are not able to walk/live "freely" in Tamil Nadu and THAT TOO in CHENNAI. All credit goes to Jaya's police system, ultimately. Hats off to Jaya's government.

 

CHENNAI: A 34-year-old transgender has been admitted in Stanley Hospital with grievous injuries following an assault, allegedly linked with a land grab bid.

According to family members, Amul Raj was molested and beaten up by goons hired by a real estate broker. They also claimed that the police, instead of taking action against the offenders, had threatened them saying they would register a case of attempted suicide against the transgender.

Raj, who lives at Bharathidasan Second Street in Pallikaranai, is a fortune-teller. On July 24, she went to a nearby shop, but did not return the whole day. But her mother Philomena wasn’t worried as she assumed that Raj had gone to her sister’s house in the same area.

On Monday afternoon, Philomena got a message from a neighbour informing that Raj was found lying in a bushy area near the Pallikaranai Police Station with grievous injuries. After undergoing treatment in a hospital at Medavakkam, Raj returned home. That was when she told the family about the molestation bid and assault by a five-member gang. Raj attributed the fresh attack to the same gang that had carried out another attack a month ago. Philomena lodged a complaint with the Pallikaranai police.

Meanwhile, Raj developed convulsions and was admitted to a hospital at Washermenpet and was later shifted to Stanley Hospital.

According to family members, Raj underwent a head surgery and was in a critical condition. “Doctors found injuries in Raj’s genitals. There was bleeding in her brain as well. We fear for her life,” said Philomena.

“Raj said the broker was part of the gang that carried out attack on both occasions. The broker has been trying to grab our land. We suspect that the attack could have been his plan to threaten us,” said Lawrence, younger brother of Raj.

Philomena said they had purchased over 1,800 square feet land at Pallikaranai� from a real estate agent some 12 years ago for Rs 35,000. After the sale, the agent had asked for an additional amount of Rs 16,000, which the family refused.

“We built a small house on the land and during rains, our house used to get flooded. Only then we realised that it was a lake area that was encroached upon and later sold to us,” said Lawrence.

The family also alleged that the Pallikaranai police, who were supposed to conduct an inquiry based on their complaint, were instead threatening them. “The policemen came to the hospital and threatened my sister Mercy to give a different complaint, saying that Raj attempted suicide,” recalled Lawrence.

However, Pallikaranai Inspector Chandra Sekar rubbished the charge. “We have detained three persons in connection with the attack. It is a sexual offence,” he said.

Bombay Eunuch’s kidnaping Boys Truning Hejads ?, Handi-Capped or Crimals of Society ?

Pune: Minor Detained for Sodomy

PUNE: A 17-year-old youth was detained late on Monday night for allegedly sodomising a four-year-old boy around 1.30 pm on the same day.

Speaking to TOI, assistant police inspector K M Badadal of the Pimpri police station said the victim was playing near his house, when the suspect, who is his neighbour, approached him. The youth took the little boy away on the pretext of giving him a chocolate. "The suspect allegedly sodomised him at a secluded place near their house," he said.

Badadal said that after returning home, the victim told his mother about the incident and also revealed the suspect's name. "After discussing with relatives, the victim's mother lodged a complaint."

Bombay Eunuch’s kidnaping Boys Truning Hejads ?

MUMBAI: A eunuch abandoned her plan of bringing a kidnapped college student to Mumbai from Tamil Nadu when she realized the police were searching for her. On July 13, Aarti Subramani kidnapped a farmer's son Sunder Salem to turn him into a eunuch.

But on July 21, when Aarti learned that police in Mumbai received a call from TN cops about the accused she abandoned her plot and returned Sunder to his parents. Eunuchs in the Antop Hill area identified the accused from her picture provided by the TN police. The police are still hunting for Aarti. Aarti and Sunder's families are neighbours in Tamil Nadu. 

 
The boy kidnapped on July 13 returned to her parents on Friday. Police are searching for her.   Police found from the eunuch community in Mumbai that the accused Aarti Subramani kidnapped a farmer's son Sunder Salem to make him a eunuch. Sunder's family and Aarti family are neighbouts in Tamil Nadu.

On July 21, police here received call from their Tamil Nadu counterparts seeking help to search for Aarti at Sion-Koliwada in Antop Hill. Senior inspector of Antop Hill police station Samaher Pathan said, "Aarti was getting details of the investigation and this forced her to abandon the plan," he said.

The TN and Antop Hill police team searched the entire locality based on her mobile network tower location in Sion-Koliwada. "The eunuch community identified the accused from her picture provided by the TN police. Later her number was not reachable. On Friday we got information that the boy returned home safe," he said.

The police had almost lost hope after searching for three days in the locality and contacted social worker Rajan Naidu who helped them to track the whereabouts of the accused. "The accused had stayed in Sion-Koliwada and later she left for Tamil Nadu. The TN police came to Mumbai in search of the accused after they found a business card at her home. The card belonged to his friend who stays in Sion-Koliwada," Naidu told TOI.

Quoting TN police inspector Raj Shekar, Naidu said the police picked the accused 's parents for questioning. "On Friday the accused called the TN police and said she would return the boy but asked to harass her parents. Police tracked down the number to Delhi. Later it was learnt all the three mobile numbers from which the accused was making the calls were procured using fake documents." 

The group is called Amma and is headed by Jatin Harne, a Ghatkopar-based eunuch who is fondly called Maharaj or Amma. It has over 15,000 members. Some representatives of the group met in Fort on Friday to discuss the PIL. They have also secured the help of an advocate to help them draft and file the petition.

"None of our morchas, dharnas or hunger strikes worked. The judiciary is above the government; so we decided to go to court," said Harne.

According to members of the group, they will list 15 specific demands in the PIL. These will include a demand for separate local train coaches and railway station toilets for eunuchs; and ration cards that have a separate category other than male and female. They want yellow ration cards to denote that they fall in the Below Poverty Line.

They also want eunuchs to be given the status of 'handicapped', and hope that they will be allowed to enjoy all special privileges that come with the status.

The group wants the Municipal Legislative Council in Mumbai to have a seat reserved for a member from the eunuch community.

Highlighting the troubles of hijras in boarding local trains, members of the group said male commuters tease and harass them in general compartments, while policemen don't allow them to board the ladies' compartments.

According to the group, over 10 lakh hijras reside in Maharashtra, with between five to six lakh living in Mumbai and Thane alone. The group is also demanding housing for the community in MHADA colonies, basing their demands on the fact that the Tamil Nadu government has developed housing colonies for the hijra community.

"If the Tamil Nadu government can sanction crores of rupees for the community, why can't the Maharashtra government?" asked a member of the group.

To get more countenance for their demands, the group also wants to pull in the support of other members of the LGBT community. "We sympathise with the gay community and count them as one of us," said Harne.

Corruption in the Name of HIV/AIDS MSM CBO/NGO, funders NACP I, II , III has gone and NACP IV,what is the need of global fund ?

To The Project Director and  All  ?
Today what problem I faced during taking Bini to the operation theatre, how whole day spent outside the operation theatre only I can understand the situation and problem.  Lots of many are spending on HIV/AIDS awareness and Target intervention, but realty is different.  I am facing lots of financial problem during this for Binni. Nobody is here to help Binni either financially or physically. End of this day, understand that there is no use spending time and working for HIV/AIDS.  
I wish I would be in other corporate sector then I would be more successfully and empowered.  
In Kolkata which is a big Metropolitan city and capital of West Bengal but where our TG/Hijra community facing such kind of problems, then we can think of other rural area of West Bengal.

 One person can’t handle everything and I feel there should be a some one beside Binni  all the time, my health condition is becoming bad day by day, its is not possible for a one person to take care of Binni bringing medicine, writing mail , talk with doctors , spending money on her food and cloth maintaining and other stake holders. How long it will be continue…………………………?
 
I think I am the only one person who  has no work , no office , no family nothing personal life but other’s Agencies, Activist, NGO, CBO, Network, funders etc  HIV/AIDS sector field so busy in their world .
 
People are giving duty as the time of visiting hour but no one is here at the time of operation, all are busy in their project and money making ,I am really feeling very ashamed and trited from such kind of people .
 
NACP I, II , III  has gone and IV is coming and lots and lots of money has been spent on  making strategies and meeting but when our community face such kind of critical situations or problems where lots of stigma and discrimination are there, But there is no help up from HIV/AIDS sector.

 Global fund has come for our TG/Hijra community but people who belong to Global fund are giving consolation but nobody is helping directly and standing beside us then what is the need of global fund?

Some so called Transgender who are actually not but unfortunately represent TG representative in National and International meeting, they also did not come one day to meet Bini. Not only this from his organization and network   who claim that they are also strarted working with TG/Hijra, I did not find anyone of them beside us and Bini. This kind of fake CBOs and Network's lament people and other Agencies entertain.

Care and Support will be not there in TI or Pehchan then what is the need of working with.....? Fade up with this duplicity and fake promises by these people.

Where is care and support unit? We have not that much capacity to handle such kind of situation and problem. Now I understood one thing which is very clear and true at this moment for me, that you don’t belong to our community so you can’t understand our pain and problems, you are behaving like that you are a giver and I am a receiver like street begger.You can give services to us but when GOD knows.
 
My last 10 to 12 years I am giving time to my community and becoming old day by day, spending my deposit but not getting any help and support and one penny for HIV/AIDS project or HIV/AIDS sector for my community. As A leader of our Transgender community I raised oppose wrong thing for betterment for our community and this is the reason that my self and our organization Bandhan’s members all faced discrimination.After seen and knowing all this still you are saying we don’t have paper or documents for empanelled. Paper is important or work?  
You are evaluating us but who will evaluate or judge of your work?  
How long this discrimination will be continuing with us and money which comes for our community will be misuse............?
Regards  Ranjit Sinha  ATHB/Bandhan

212 CRIMAL Eunuchs Arrested by HYDERABAD Railway Police ?

HYDERABAD: The Railway Protection Force of South Central Railway have arrested 212 eunuchs or transgenders, in special drives conducted in the railway stations and trains during June.In order to eradicate the alleged menace of eunuch, the security department of SCR conducted 564 drives during June at the sections where presence of eunuchs was reported.As result, 201 cases against eunuchs were registered. An amount of `34,150 was collected towards penalty and eleven eunuchs were sentenced to imprisonment. Trial against remaining twenty six cases are pending in the court of law.

CRIMAL Eunuchs in PAK shaving transvestites’ heads

Transvestites protest in front of Peshawar Press Club 

against sexual harassment and physical abuse on Monday.

PESHAWAR:  The City police took seven persons into custody after transvestites complained of being sexually harassed and physically tortured by them, police said.

SHO Khazana Police Station Raz Mohammad Khan told The Express Tribune that they took seven persons into custody after transvestites approached the police with a written complaint detailing their ordeal, saying that they shaved the heads of five transvestites and subjected them to physical abuse.
Raz Mohammad said that the issue was settled as another application of reconciliation was submitted to the police station after the initial application.
However, he added that the accused were still in police custody.
Transvestites have traditionally been paid to help celebrate the birth of a son or to dance at weddings, but today, many end up living on the streets, begging or prostituting themselves. Additionally, in a country where sexual relations outside marriage are taboo and homosexuality is illegal, transvestites are also treated as sex objects and often become the victims of violent assault.
Earlier in the day, transvestites from around the city protested outside Peshawar Press Club (PPC) to call attention to the abuse.
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Shemale Association President Farzana told the Express Tribune that such incidents have been taking place over the last few months and the same group of people is responsible for shaving the heads of transvestites and subjecting them to other forms of physical and mental abuse.
Earlier, five transvestites approached with a complaint that they were taken to a party in the Bakhshi Pul area on Charsadda Road, where a group of men shaved their heads and then began torturing them.
She identified the transvestites as Marghay, Lambay, Nazoo, Guria and Saeeda, adding that the same kind of treatment has been meted out to at least 20 transvestites during the past few months, with some of them leaving the city in fear.
Farzana claimed that the same group had previously sexually abused some transvestites and filmed the incident, which was later uploaded to the internet. She claimed that she was also being threatened for speaking out.
Another transvestite who was subjected to physical abuse some 20 days back corroborated Farzana’s story, telling The Express Tribune that a group of 15-20 men subjected them to physical abuse and that the attackers filmed part of the incident. She felt sure that the attackers were from the same group that shaved the heads of transvestites last night.

 

CRIMAL Activetes of Ladyboy in Thiland

Khun Jenny faces Patong police with  expat tourist
Oliver Matthews  Photo by phuketwan.com

Phuket Ladyboy Katoey Picks the Wrong Pocket

PHUKET: A ladyboy katoey who picked a pocket and stole a young tourist's wallet in Patong will be sent to the courts as an example to others, a Phuket police officer said today.

The wallet, belonging to South African visitor Oliver Matthews, 19, contained only 200 baht, Kathu Police Station Lieutenant Jongserm Preecha told Phuketwa

''It's time these kinds of crimes were stopped so we are sending the perpetrator to the courts today rather than impose a small fine,'' he said.

The thief, Thailand ''Jenny'' Kunboonanb, 30, confessed to picking the pocket of Mr Matthews as he walked outside the Village Hotel on beach road about 8.10pm last night.

With the help of Tourist Police, Mr Matthews reported the matter to Patong police soon after, and he was quickly able to identify Khun Jenny as the thief from a database of mugshots of Patong ladyboys.

Khun Jenny was arrested last night and is due to appear at the Phuket Provincial Court in Phuket City today.

There's only one punishment suitable... Castration! No, wait... That's what they want, isn't it?

Where is the Village Hotel in Patong. Never heard of it before, is it a new place?

Near the football field, I'm told.

This guy had better not come back to Patong again, because if that ladyboy sees him again after this (s)he'll try to kill him! Cross a ladyboy and (s)he becomes homicidal!

Henry, there's no evidence of people convicted of petty crimes behaving in that fashion . . . although your experience may be quite different.

Whistle, nope,

Editor Comment:

I think, Bartholomew, you should learn a bit more about life. A quick cowboy lasso and a couple of bricks smashed together might actually make you a more complete human being.

Watch CRIMAL ACTIVETES of Hejad in Film Murder-2 Today ?

Mahesh Bhatt presents (a squirt of paan). A Vikram Bhatt production (a spew of ketchup). A Mohit Suri film (a splash of red curry). When the credits roll like this, it's not surprising that 60 percent of the film has some substitute for blood being spat on the screen. 'Murder 2' is, as you would imagine, a bloody thriller.

it's a bit out of sync like the late-night dubbed teleshopping ads.

But what really adds thrill and lots of screams into this thriller is a cross-dressing psycho-killer, Dheeraj Pandey (Prashant Narayanan), who loves mutilating sex workers while singing 'Bheegey Hont Tere', unmelodiously and with sadistic lyrics. Why? Because his characterization is deep fried. Oddly enough, he gets caught early in the film and even confesses to his sinister deeds. But there are so many reels left?

 

So, just to pass time, Arjun is assigned the task to find clues and evidence to corroborate Pandey's confession by a bewildered cop (Sudhanshu Pandey). And just to double the excitement, he has to do all this over a night.

Will Arjun manage to flick his Little Richard bangs and save Pandey's last victim? Despite confessing to finely chopping several whores, will Pandey be let off for his odd political connections? Will Priya's lips continue moving for seconds after her dialogue completes? These questions are only rhetorical and best unanswered.

The dialogues in this film are downright tacky. An interaction between the lead pair just after a ferocious make-out session goes like this. Priya: "Khaaye, Piye, Khiskay? Arjun: "Hotel mein khaane ke baad koi baitha rehta hain kya?" But the dialogues don't even compare to the magnitude of clichés in the plot. Arjun's 'Ma-Behen-Baap' have all deceased due to poverty. Eunuchs have been portrayed as a cult that worships the devil and let's not even get into the cop with the fake Goan accent.

The film's sound effects could have you shrinking into your seat. But largely, it's less scary and more disturbing. Emraan manages a great job of letting his mouth do all the acting but his constipated expressions are only marginally different from his remaining expressions. Jacqueline is an ideal pin-up girl and those considering this film just to get a glimpse of her would be happy to overlook her lack of acting skills or inability to enunciate.

One could safely call this film as the 'Silence of the Bhatts', with Emraan almost managing the Jodie Foster hairdo. And since the penalty for several murders is the same as that for one, let's just hope the third one is a bit more premeditated.

Ghulam Nabi Azad Fucks homosexuality an UN-Natural Disease ?

India's health minister derided homosexuality as an unnatural "disease" from the West at an HIV/AIDS conference, drawing outrage Tuesday from a U.N. official and activists who said the comments set back campaigns for gay rights and against HIV.

In a hastily called news conference Tuesday evening, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said he was misquoted, though video of Monday's speech has aired repeatedly on Indian television.

"Some people have played with the words. I have been quoted out of context," he said. "My reference was to HIV as a disease. As health minister, I know (male homosexual sex) is not a disease."

His original speech echoed a common refrain in the conservative South Asian nation that homosexuality is a Western import.

"It is a matter of concern that, unfortunately, in the world and in our country this disease has arisen, where men are having sex with men, which is unnatural and should not be happening," Azad said, speaking in Hindi.

Anjali Gopalan, who heads the NAZ Foundation, a rights group that works with HIV positive people and promotes equal rights for homosexuals, said Azad's initial comments were deeply troubling coming from the health minister of a country fighting a tough battle against HIV infections.

"These comments help no cause. It's definitely not going to help in our fight against HIV," she told The Associated Press.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi and a slew of government ministers were present at the conference Monday.

Singh should consider firing Azad, said Anand Grover, the U.N. special rapporteur on health.

"His remarks are completely insensitive. It lowers the dignity of the gay community," he said. "It is unacceptable to have a minister talking like this."

Roughly 2.5 million Indians have HIV, making it the country with the largest number of people living with the virus in Asia.

Experts say the marginalization of gay people keeps them isolated and makes it harder for HIV/AIDS awareness messages to reach them.

"If you're not going to invest in community building, then gay people will continue to be marginalized," Gopalan said.

In 2009, the Delhi High Court struck down a colonial era law — Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code — that made sex between people of the same gender punishable by up to 10 years in prison. While actual criminal prosecutions were rare, the law was frequently used to harass people.

The court ruling was noteworthy in a country where even heterosexual sex is rarely discussed openly.

Over the last decade, homosexuals have slowly gained a degree of acceptance in a few parts of India, especially its big cities. Many bars have gay nights, and some high-profile Bollywood films have dealt with gay issues. The last two years have also seen large gay pride parades in New Delhi and other big cities such as Mumbai and Kolkata.

Still, being gay remains deeply taboo in most of the country, and many homosexuals hide their sexual orientation from friends and families.

"How can the health minister say something so unscientific and irrational?" Nitin Karani, a gay rights activist told a television new channel. "He needs to apologize immediately or he needs to go."

This is not the first time Azad's words have embarrassed the government.

A few years ago, he suggested Indians watch television instead of having sex as a means to stem population growth in the nation of 1.2 billion people.

Azad''s remarks on homosexuality invite flak from Bollywood , Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad''s comments on homosexuality have not gone down well with several Bollywood personalities, who have criticised his "regressive" stand on the issue. 

 The Health Minister had yesterday described homosexuality as a ''disease'' and regretted that despite being ''unnatural'', it now afflicts a substantial number of people in India.

"Ghulam Nabi Azad needs urgent counseling for his regressive statement. His ''unnatural'' stand is dangerous for healthy democracy. Its because of these regressive people the largest democracy in the world deprives the largest number of sexual minorities their democratic rights," filmmaker Onir tweeted.

Actress Celina Jaitly, who is a supporter of the rights and equality of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community and supports the gay rights movement in India, said, "I m shocked to hear that our health minister would make a statement about homosexuality calling it a "disease" WHO does not think so Sir!."

"Dear honourable Mr Health Minister, the World Health Organization (WHO) removed homosexuality from its list of diseases in 1990," Celina said.

Filmmaker Tarun Mansukhani said, "Just woke up to read the astonishing comments made by our Union Health Minister, Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad, who claims Homosexuality is a disease!! (Speechless...Abusive...ROFL...Abusive again....Pensive.)" PTI KKP DK

Azad's comments on MSM shocking: Gay community

Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad's comment that men having sex with men (MSM) is a 'disease' and 'unnatural' has drawn flak from the gay community and activists who have been fighting tooth and nail for greater social acceptability for homosexuals. 

Mohnish Malhotra, who has been long involved in the fight for gay rights and is one of the organisers of the annual gay pride, said the minister's comments were shocking.

'It's shocking that such a comment was made by the country's health minister,' Malhotra told IANS. 'Even the UN passed a resolution saying that the LGBT community has equal rights as anyone else and cannot be discriminated on the basis of their sexual orientation,' he added.

On Monday at a conference on HIV/AIDS, Azad said: 'The disease of MSM is unnatural and not good for India. We are not able to identify where it is happening as it is less reported also.'

'It is a challenge because in cases of female sex workers we can identify the community and reach out to them. But in case of MSM, it is becoming difficult,' he added.

He also pointing to increased efforts to promote condoms, treat sexually transmitted diseases, and launch information and communication programmes among transgenders and sex workers.

Strongly disagreeing with the minister's comment, Ashok Row Kavi from Hamsafar Trust said: 'Gay sex is not unnatural. It is a matter of one's sexual orientation. If out of 100 children, five are left-handed, do you call them unnatural?'.

Amrita Sharma, an activist, said the health minister should limit himself to talking about health issues instead of commenting on a person's sexuality.

'Homosexual sex is just as natural as heterosexual sex. In a democracy, gays should have the same rights as heterosexuals...Most sex workers use condoms. The problem arises when men have sex outside of marriage without protection,' she added.

Financial corruption in MSM NGO/CBO at Secunderabad funded by NACO 

This is to inform you that an NGO/CBO based at Secunderabad has been involved in a huge financial corruption and fraud during following 1 year. The concerned NGO/CBO has been granted a MSM (PLHA) DIC along with Prophylaxis Treatment and MSM TI has done so…….
Office Rent: The Concerned NGO/CBO for MSM (PLHAs)project has Rs.7333.33/ per month towards Office rent where another TI project has been running in the same premises for which separate funds upto Rs.12000 has been sanctioned for DIC and Office . From 5 months it has become more problem for MSM PLHAs as they feel stigmatised to share same DIC with the Non-PLHA MSMs hence they stopped coming to PLHA DIC. The funds allotted for such DIC, Clinic and Office rent under TI project has been already withdrawn and shown as used in the financial reports of the organisation by management.

Medicines Cost: The Concerned NGO/CBO for MSM (PLHAs) has been granted Rs.3951.5/- per month but for 10 months for purchase of medicines for PLHA’s ,a single MSM PLHA has not been granted such costs for their medicines but the amount has been consumed by the management producing fake bills.
Electricity Charges: The Concerned NGO/CBO for MSM (PLHAs)project has been granted Rs.337/- per month towards electricity charges but, in the same office premises the DIC, clinic and Administrative Offices of the other projects(Crisis and TI) has been maintained which has been already granted separate amount of Rs.800/-per month under those concerned projects ,same electricity bills are produced as proof in all the projects.
Advocacy Expenses: Concerned NGO/CBO has been granted Rs.12000 half yearly to do an event to mobilize, building network and sensitise the MSM (PLHAs) project network ,where only 1 event has been done and the other event has been claimed producing fake bills and report.
Community Event: The Concerned NGO/CBO working for MSM TI project has been granted Rs.10000/- towards one Community Event to be conducted in 1 quarter till date not have been done.
Equipment for DIC: The Concerned NGO/CBO working for MSM TI has been granted Rs.20000/- towards Purchase of TV, DVD and playing things in DIC but till today no such equipment has found in DIC or Office but the amount for the same has been withdrawn by management.
Peer Educator Honorarium and Travel : The Concerned NGO/CBO working for MSM TI has been granted 20 Peer Educators to various hotspots but they have not been appointed fully till today ,the HRGs are not, delivered condoms at such hotspots .Honorarium to such Peer Educators where ever self has been paid has been withdrawn and utilised by management itself.
If this is all regarding financial corruption above all we pleased to inform you that so called NGO/CBO has 5 BENAMI directors for whom such lakhs of project has been handed over for a proper cause please check the signatures of all the directors.
We request the funders that huge amount of funds flow in the HIV/AIDS sector for a proper cause, but because of these cheaters and fraud the objectives behind such need has not been fulfilled and today if you go to any ICTCs working around Secunderabad HIV prevalence has been increased from 7% to 12 %.Awake ,Arise and Act now.

AVAGAAHANA Group

A network…….

CRIMAL Eunuchs kill passenger in train ?

A gang of miscreants, posing as eunuchs, stabbed a man in the general bogey of the Patna-Bangalore Sanghamitra Express on Tuesday night. The eunuchs were demanding Rs 50 from Rakesh Kumar Shau who had parted with only Rs 10. Bleeding profusely from the attack, he later succumbed to injuries.

The latest incident underlined the increasing menace of eunuchs, beggars and other miscreants who harass passengers after entering the trains illegally when it stops at signals. With most incidents taking place in long-distance trains, a nexus between the security forces and offenders cannot be ruled out. Of late, incidents of miscreants posing as eunuchs have risen in trains even as the Railway Protection Force (RPF) turns a Nelson's Eye.

Shau, who was in his 20s and married only a year ago, had boarded the train from Patna on Monday evening. He and five others worked at a Bangalore-based construction company as masons. A couple of Shau's co-travellers too were injured in the attack. The injured remained unattended for a long time after the train stopped on platform No 2 at the Nagpur station.

The incident took place at 10pm on Monday night after the train halted at a signal just before Nagpur. Three so-called eunuchs, with typical mannerisms and a gaudy make-up, entered the general bogey towards the rear end of the train.

"They demanded Rs 50. We asked them to settle for Rs 10 as we were not carrying much cash with us. However, they were not willing to listen," said Ravi Kumar, who was Shau's co-traveller. "Suddenly, they started snatching our wallets and tickets. They were carrying small knives too. This led to a mild scuffle. Nobody came to our help."

One of the miscreants, identifying herself as Sapna then spoke to someone on the mobile phone. "They pulled the chain so four more attackers could board the train. Two waited on the tracks while around six started attacking us even as the train remained standing," said Ravi Kumar. Shau received multiple stab injuries on the back of his left leg. The men approached the Government Railway Police after they reached the Nagpur. While a section of GRP personnel rushed the injured Shau and others to the Indira Gandhi Government Medical College and Hospital, another headed by assistant sub-inspector Premlal Samudure rushed to the Motibagh, Gaddigodam and Pilli Nadi localities to look for Sapna and her gang.

The police has managed to nab Swapnil Bauria, alias Sapna, Vijay Chafle, alias Saloni, Aman Mendhe, Yogesh Bhoyar and Ajay Bawne. "Bhoyar assaulted Shau with the knife while the others beat him up," said Chandrashekhar Bhabal, Sr PI of GRP. Bhoyar has a prior criminal record too, said the cops.

GRP officials said that RPF should patrol more in the trains to ensure such incidents do not take place. "RPF has the power to take action against the eunuchs under section 145 of Indian Railways Act," said a GRP personnel.

Eunuchs Beat and rob Train Commute
A businessman from Nerul, Amar Sant, 34, was beaten up and then robbed by a group of eunuchs on a CST-bound train from Dombivli around 8:30 pm on Friday. Police have launched a manhunt for the assaulters in this first instance of eunuchs brutally beating up someone.

Sant recalled, “When the train reached Thane, four eunuchs boarded the First Class compartment, and asked for money. There were only three others in the compartment.I waved my hand in refusal, as I was on my mobile. A few minutes later, they came back, and I refused again. That’s when one of them hit me on my head and others

joined him in beating me. After a few blows to my head, I became unconscious.
Next I remember being shaken awake by commuters at Kurla, while I was lying in the passage.” Sant was robbed of around Rs 3,000. Fellow commuters assisted him to get off the train, called his friends, who took him to Sion hospital. Medical examination of injuries to his head and spine showed only bruises to his back, and Sant has been advised rest.

On Saturday, Sant reported the matter to Thane GRP, who registered a case under Section 323 (assault). Rajendra Kathawate, Senior PI, Thane GRP said, “It is a serious offence, and we have alerted the Railway Police Force. Our teams are on lookout for the eunuchs.”