Court sends transgender mosque leader to jail.

RAWALPINDI -- The court of civil judge Tuesday has sent a transgender person to jail by rejecting plea of police of giving extension in physical remand in a case of leading prayers in a mosque by hiding his gender . Civil Judge Rabia Salim sent the transgender person identified as Muhammad Khan to Adiala jail. Earlier, police had arrested the eunuch after filing a case against her on charges of leading prayers as Imam in the mosque in a village by hiding her gender.

The case was registered with Rawat Police Station under section 419 of PPC and The Punjab Vagrancy...

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