Bengaluru: A division bench of the Karnataka High Court has barred the state government and people from using the ‘strip and search’ method of survey to identify transgenders.

The two-judge bench, consisting of Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice CM Poonacha, directed the concerned authorities on Tuesday to keep the information collected during the survey, which began on Wednesday, strictly confidential.

The interim order was passed after hearing a petition by Anita Humanitarian Foundation that asked the court to quash the notification issued by the state government to conduct the ‘gender minority survey’. The petitioner’s advocate also argued that transgenders were being subjected to the strip and search methods in hospitals and also other transgenders who may not claim to be of the

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