Tag: Patna High Court

The Patna High Court on Thursday put an interim stay on the caste-based survey being conducted by the Bihar government. A division bench of Chief Justice Vinod Chandran and Justice Madhuresh Kumar, after hearing the writ petition, passed the interim order and directed the government to stop any further survey. The state government has also been asked to preserve the data related to caste-based census and not distribute it to anyone. Abhinav Srivastava, the lawyer of the petitioner, argued that the Bihar government has no right to conduct a caste-based survey as...