The petitioners called for the protection of fundamental rights under Article 14, 19 and 21 of the Constitution to carry on their task of collection of offerings without fear of violence. (File Photo) The Allahabad High Court has dismissed a petition of some members of the kinnar (transgender) community seeking directions to the Uttar Pradesh government for demarcation of a defined territory for collection of badhai (customary offerings) in order to stop confrontation with other groups. A division bench of Justices Alok Mathur and Amitabh Kumar Rai, in an April 15 order, stated, “Extraction of money from any individual willfully or otherwise cannot be permitted and any citizen of this country can be directed to pay only such amounts of tax, cess or fee which can be legitimately extracted from such individuals in accordance with law.” “In any view of the matter such extraction of money cannot be legitimized and the prayer made in the writ petition cannot be accepted.…