The Patna High Court has given its verdict on Tuesday in the case of ‘caste-based survey’. The court has removed the ban on ‘caste based survey’.
While giving the verdict on the petitions filed against the caste-based survey, the division bench of Chief Justice KV Chandran said that the state government can get the caste-based census done.
Dinu Kumar, the lawyer for the petitioners, told the media after this decision that now the government can conduct a caste survey in Bihar.
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Dinu Kumar will now go to the Supreme Court against this decision.
This decision was kept in reserve for the last several weeks.
A period of political allegations and counter-allegations has been witnessed in Bihar for a long time regarding the caste-based survey.
Even when the Patna High Court banned this, the opposition party BJP took a dig at the government.
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Top BJP leaders said that the government did not make extensive and necessary preparations for the debate, while CM Nitish Kumar said that he already knows who are against the caste-based survey.
When the caste-based survey was banned within Bihar, then the second phase of counting was going on.
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar himself had shared all the information after reaching his home district.
