INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: Patna high court on Tuesday held a caste survey being conducted by the Bihar government as valid and legal.The court also
dismissed petitions that were filed against the caste survey started by the state government in June 2022.Talking to reporters outside the
court after a hearing by a bench headed by chief justice K Vinod Chandran, advocate Dinu Kumar, a counsel for one of the petitioners, said
that he will move Supreme Court against the judgement."We do not know the details of the order
In the open court, the bench said it was rejecting all the petitions," he said.Advocate Ritika Sharma said that the high court has dismissed
all petitions and now the government can continue with the caste census
"We will approach the Supreme Court now," she added.Stating that BJP had supported the caste census, Bihar LoP Vijay Kumar Sinha said, "They
in an appeal filed before the top court against the May 4 order of the high court, the Bihar government had said the stay will adversely
affect the entire exercise.The state government had maintained that the collection of caste-based data is a constitutional mandate under
Articles 15 and 16 of the Constitution.The first round of caste survey in Bihar was conducted between January 7 and 21.
