Mumbai: The IGP (Establishment) Aurangabad range, Rajkumar Whatkar on Monday rejected the application of a female constable seeking permission to undergo gender reassignment surgery.
In an order, the IGP said that, as per recruitment rules, the minimum height of a male constable should be 165 cm while the height of applicant — who joined police force in 2009 — is 162.5 cm and she could not be accommodated in the male section of the police force and hence should not be granted permission for the surgery.
Beed resident Smita Deshpande (name changed) had moved the application to the DGP, Maharashtra, via her lawyer Dr Ejaz Abbas.
Dr Abbas said, “Due to hormonal changes, she is living in the physical condition of a transgender, and society is usually unfair and cruel towards the third gender so she wants to become a male person now.”
