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The High Court of Karnataka connected Wednesday retrained the State authorities from adopting “strip and search” method to place transgender persons during the ongoing transgender survey crossed the State.
Also, the Court directed that the State authorities and the persons conducting survey should, earlier calling the transgender persons to enactment successful the survey, pass that the information successful survey is voluntary.
A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice C.M. Poonacha passed the interim bid connected a PIL petition filed by Anita Humanitarian Foundation, a Mysuru-based NGO.
Meanwhile, the tribunal directed the Department of Social Welfare, which is conducting the survey, to support immoderate accusation collected during the survey confidential and not disseminated, and asking the section to record an affidavit connected mode successful which confidentiality of survey information would beryllium maintained.
Contending that the survey is violative of the provisions of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019, and the provisions of the Constitution of India, the petitioner sought a absorption to discontinue the survey, commenced from September 15, 2025.
Pointing retired that respective transgender persons were subjected to “forced verification portion checking oregon different forms of humiliation”, the petitioner has besides sought a absorption to the authorities to tender a nationalist apology to the transgender assemblage for the amerciable invasive and unconstitutional process of enumeration and springiness capable monetary compensation for usurpation of their dignity and privacy.
Fix responsibility
The petitioner has besides sought a absorption to the authorities to hole accountability connected erring officials, who designed and implemented the survey without statutory authorisation oregon assemblage consultation and instrumentality disciplinary enactment against them.
Also, the petitioner sought court’s absorption to the authorities to framework guidelines nether judicial supervision ensuring that immoderate aboriginal schemes, policies oregon information postulation efforts relating to transgender persons are conducted with dignity, informed consent, and strict extortion of idiosyncratic data.
