Lalita Salve aka Lalit Kumar (Police Constable)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Lalita Salve

• Does Lalita Salve smoke?: No

• Does Lalita Salve drink alcohol?: Not Known

• Lalita was born into a lower-middle-class family with roots in Majalgaon.

• As a kid, she wanted to be a singer.

• When she was 7 years old, she went for a treatment but the doctor mistook an underdeveloped testicle for a tumour and discarded it instead of a hernia.

• In 2010, she joined the Maharashtra police force. 

• In 2017, she decided to have a gender change from female to male, and had applied for a month’s leave to undergo sex surgery, but it was rejected by the police and was even asked to leave the job.

• The same year, she went to the Bombay High Court, after which the court made a medical board at JJ hospital that included a gynaecologist, a radiologist, a plastic surgeon, a urologist, a physician, a psychiatrist, and a forensic expert and later, declared her as eligible for the sex change operation.