India, April 3 -- The Rajasthan high court on Thursday ordered the deletion of three paragraphs that criticised the recent amendments to the trangender rights act from a March 30 verdict, adding that the text in the epilogue was included by mistake and was neither intended nor necessary.

A division bench of justices Arun Monga and Yogendra Kumar Purohit - who had passed the order while deciding a writ application filed by a transgender person - noted that certain portions had "inadvertently" been included in the epilogue of the earlier judgment.

"Upon our re-reading of the epilogue, it appears that by mistake the following text was included therein, although it was neither intended nor necessary," the court said.

The court then ordered...