Patna High Court Puts Interim Stay on Caste-Based Survey in Bihar
The QuintThe Patna High Court on Thursday, 4 May, put an interim stay on the caste-based survey initiated by the Bihar state government. The Bihar government had launched the exercise in January this year and had aimed at compiling data on each family in a two-phase process. However, several petitions had been filed in the high court challenging the caste survey. Only a day ago on Wednesday, the high court had reserved its judgment in the case and the division bench of chief justice K Vinod Chandran and justice Madhuresh Prasad had noted that it would grant interim relief to the petitioners if it found that the state government had: either exceeded its powers to commission such a survey; not followed the due process of law; or if there was an infringement of privacy of the respondents “We will grant you interim relief if there is a violation of any of the three issues, otherwise we will allow them to continue,” Justice Chandran had said.