The Madras High Court on Wednesday disposed of a public interest litigation petition seeking reservation for transpersons in education and public employment, after the State government informed it of having already provided the best possible options for reservation to transgender candidates.
Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari and Justice N. Mala held that no orders needed to be passed on the PIL petition filed by P. Sudha of Indian Transgender Initiative, since Advocate General R. Shunmugasundaram had produced before the court a series of Government Orders (GOs) on the issue.
It was brought to the notice of the court that in the famous National Legal Services Authority case, the Supreme Court had, on April 15, 2014, directed the Centre and the State governments to take steps to treat the third gender as a socially and educationally backward class and provide reservation to members of that community.
