By means of PTI
PATNA: The Patna Top Court docket on Thursday ordered a keep at the caste survey being carried out through the state govt.
Listening to a number of petitions, a department bench of Leader Justice Ok Vinod Chandran and Justice Madhuresh Prasad directed the federal government to in an instant forestall the caste-based survey, and make certain that the knowledge already accrued are secured and no longer shared with any one until ultimate orders are handed.
The courtroom fastened July 7 as the following date for the listening to.
“We’re of the regarded as opinion that the petitioners have made out a prima facie case in opposition to the continuation of the method of caste-based survey, as tried through the State of Bihar. There may be the query raised of information integrity and safety which needs to be extra elaborately addressed through the State,” the courtroom mentioned.
“Prima facie, we’re of the opinion that the State has no energy to hold out a caste-based survey, within the way by which it’s shaped now, which might quantity to a census, thus impinging upon the legislative energy of the Union Parliament,” it added.
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Expressing worry, the courtroom famous the federal government’s goal to proportion information from the survey with the leaders of various events within the state meeting.
“There for sure arises the bigger query of the best to privateness, which the Excellent Court docket has held to be a side of the best to existence,” it mentioned.
The primary spherical of caste surveys in Bihar was once carried out between January 7 and 21.
The second one spherical began on April 15 and was once meant to proceed until Might 15.
The petitions sooner than the prime courtroom was once filed through a social outfit and a few folks, who had closing month moved the Excellent Court docket after their request for an ‘meantime aid’ within the type of a keep at the survey was once grew to become down.
The apex courtroom refused to intervene as neatly and referred them again to the prime courtroom with instructions that their petition be made up our minds expeditiously.
Leader Minister Nitish Kumar has maintained that the state isn’t engaging in a caste census however most effective accumulating knowledge associated with folks’s financial standing and their caste in order that particular steps might be taken through the federal government to serve them higher.
PATNA: The Patna Top Court docket on Thursday ordered a keep at the caste survey being carried out through the state govt.
Listening to a number of petitions, a department bench of Leader Justice Ok Vinod Chandran and Justice Madhuresh Prasad directed the federal government to in an instant forestall the caste-based survey, and make certain that the knowledge already accrued are secured and no longer shared with any one until ultimate orders are handed.
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“We’re of the regarded as opinion that the petitioners have made out a prima facie case in opposition to the continuation of the method of caste-based survey, as tried through the State of Bihar. There may be the query raised of information integrity and safety which needs to be extra elaborately addressed through the State,” the courtroom mentioned.
“Prima facie, we’re of the opinion that the State has no energy to hold out a caste-based survey, within the way by which it’s shaped now, which might quantity to a census, thus impinging upon the legislative energy of the Union Parliament,” it added.
ALSO READ | Can Bihar’s caste survey turn out a headache for PM Modi?
Expressing worry, the courtroom famous the federal government’s goal to proportion information from the survey with the leaders of various events within the state meeting.
“There for sure arises the bigger query of the best to privateness, which the Excellent Court docket has held to be a side of the best to existence,” it mentioned.
The primary spherical of caste surveys in Bihar was once carried out between January 7 and 21.
The second one spherical began on April 15 and was once meant to proceed until Might 15.
The petitions sooner than the prime courtroom was once filed through a social outfit and a few folks, who had closing month moved the Excellent Court docket after their request for an ‘meantime aid’ within the type of a keep at the survey was once grew to become down.
The apex courtroom refused to intervene as neatly and referred them again to the prime courtroom with instructions that their petition be made up our minds expeditiously.
Leader Minister Nitish Kumar has maintained that the state isn’t engaging in a caste census however most effective accumulating knowledge associated with folks’s financial standing and their caste in order that particular steps might be taken through the federal government to serve them higher.