The Supreme Court on Monday has sought responses from the Centre, the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) and others on a PIL seeking to safeguard the interests of intersex children who undergo unregulated sex change surgeries in the country.
A bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra took note of the submissions of the counsel appearing for the petitioner, Madurai resident Gopi Shankar M, that such intersex persons, on assuming the majority, are also not recognized as voters.
“Issue notice,” the bench stated and asked the Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati to assist it in hearing of the PIL.
Also, the lawyer stated that the medical interventions for such sex change surgeries are punishable offences in other jurisdictions.
Furthermore, the PIL has made Union ministries of Home Affairs, Social Justice and Empowerment, Health and Family Welfare, Law and Justice, and Women and Child Development parties to the plea.
The Registrar General, the Census Commissioner of India and the CARA have also made parties to the plea.
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