The Centre on Monday, 7 December, told the Delhi High Court that data on transgender persons will now be recorded separately in the National Crime Records Bureau's Prison Statistics Report, reported Bar and Bench.
The response was in connection with a plea filed by journalist Karan Tripathi, through the Alliance Law Group that contends that more than six years have elapsed since the Supreme Court verdict, which gave legal recognition to transgenders, yet the NCRB, under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), has failed to reasonably classify transgenders as a separate third gender in its annual publication of the Prison Statistics India report.
By not assigning a proper sex to the prison inmates, who may be transgenders, the plea claimed there cannot be a proper guarantee of their civil rights, constitutional rights and even basic human rights, thereby breaching the very tenets of the Constitution and the basis of the top court judgment.