The Maharashtra Government recently informed the Bombay High Court that it would appoint a woman with the male chromosome to a non-constabulary post under the Nashik Rural Police Recruitment (NRPR) process.
A Division Bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Madhav Jamdar was hearing a plea filed by the petitioner in 2018, when she was 19 years old. She had filed an online application for the NRPR under the Scheduled Caste (SC) reserved category. She appeared for the written examination as well as physical test, and obtained 171 marks out of 200. She was then sent for her medical examination at the State-run JJ Hospital.
There she was informed that the Karyotyping test was not conducted at the JJ Hospital, she was sent to the National Institute of Immunohaematology for it, where it was found that her blood showed “XY” chromosomes. After receiving the report, JJ Hospital issued a letter to the Superintendent of Police (SP), Nashik Rural, Nashik, informing its opinion that the petitioner was a “Male”.
