ORDER :

(Ujjal Bhuyan, J.)

Issue raised in all the three public interest litigations (PIL) being inter-related, those were heard together and are being disposed of by this common judgment and order.

2. We have heard Ms. Jayna Kothari, learned Senior Counsel appearing for Mr. K. Sai Sandeep Pareekshit, learned counsel for the petitioners and Mr. Andapalli Sanjeev Kumar, learned Special Government Pleader for the respondents.

3. In W.P. (PIL) No.44 of 2018 prayer made is to declare Telangana Eunuchs Act , 1329 Fasli as ultra vires and unconstitutional.

4. Petitioners are transgender persons residing in the State of Telangana.

5. Telangana Eunuchs Act , 1329 Fasli previously referred to as Andhra Pradesh (Telangana Area) Eunuchs Act, 1329 Fasli was first enacted in the year 1919 and is applicable to eunuchs as defined under the said Act. Telangana Eunuchs Act , 1329 Fasli (briefly, ‘the Act’ hereinafter) mandates maintenance of a register of eunuchs residing in the city of Hyderabad who are suspected of kidnapping or emasculating boys or of committing unnatural offences or abetting t