The Supreme Court today(October 6) heard a petition writ filed by two transgender persons seeking reservation in the NEET-PG exam as per the 2014 NALSA judgment, which had directed that transgender persons should be treated as socially and educationally backward classes and extend all kinds of reservation in educational institutions. It has asked States who are yet to file affidavit to file the same indicating in what time they are going to implement the horizonmental reservation for transgender persons.

Before a bench comprising Justice PS Narasimha and Justice AS Chandurkar, Senior Advocate Indira Jaising (for petitioners) sought an interim order for the horizontal reservation of two seats in the All India quota and one each in the Tamil Nadu and the Andhra Pradesh State quota, wh

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