After 29 years of tying a rakhi on his brothers' wrists, Lalit Salve was in tears as his sister tied one on his forearm for the first time. This is the first Raksha Bandhan the Beed constable has celebrated with his family since his genital reconstruction surgery and transformation from Lalita to Lalit in May.

Born with an underdeveloped penis, Lalit had been wrongly identified as female at birth. The intersex Beed resident was brought up as a girl and would tie a rakhi to his two brothers every year on Raksha Bandhan. Secretly though, he dreamed of the day his sister would tie him one.