Mumbai: Woman constable Lalita Salve on Thursday approached the Bombay high court seeking directions to the Maharashtra police to allow her to change her gender and at the same time safeguard her post. Salve had approached the court after the superintendent of police, Beed refused her permission and said that if she changes her gender she would be disqualified from her job. Salve had prayed that she be allowed to not only change her sex but also that the state bears the cost of her sex reassignment surgery and allows her to keep the job.
Advocate Ejaz Naqvi who appears on behalf of Salve, while mentioning the case before a division bench said that her petition sought a month’s leave to undergo sex reassignment surgery as she had been suggested the same by the doctors at JJ Hospital. He said Salve had consulted them after her body started undergoing changes three years ago.
