Advocate Jamshed Ansari in his PIL before the High Court had alleged violation of Article 14, 15, 19 and 21 of the Constitution by Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), by

non-inclusion of "transgender/third gender" as a gender option in its forms. He had also sought compliance of the apex court judgment in which it directed the Centre and the state

governments to recognise transgender as the third sex, and to provide them with the benefits accorded to socially and economically-backward classes. He had further demanded special coaches

and reserved seats for the transgender community in all trains, for their "care and protection". On which the bench headed by Chief Justice G Rohini had asked the ministry to look