Updated On: 08 December, 2022 06:15 AM IST | Mumbai | Agencies
Bombay HC tells state government it prima facie agrees with tribunal’s order to make provision for a third gender in forms for recruitment in the home department

Chief Minister Eknath Sinde with his deputy and home minister Devendra Fadnavis. File pic/Shadab Khan
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday said it prima facie agreed with the Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal directing the government to create a provision in application forms for the appointment of transgender people under the home department.
A division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Abhay Ahuja was hearing a petition filed by the state government, seeking a stay on the tribunal’s order dated November 14.