Supreme Court to hear Petititons Seeking Cancellation of Caste Based Census in Bihar

The Supreme Court will hear the petitions filed against the caste census in Bihar on Friday 20 th januaray. A bench of Justice BR Gavai and Justice Vikram Nath will hear the matter. Three petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court against the caste census in Bihar. Akhilesh Kumar, Hindu Sena president Vishnu Gupta and NGO “Ek Soch Ek Prayas” have filed a petition seeking cancellation of the notification issued by the state government on June 6 for caste census in Bihar.

Akhilesh Kumar, a resident of Nalanda, Bihar, has filed a petition demanding the cancellation of the notification issued by the state government on June 6. The petitioner said that that no state has the right to conduct census under the constitution. Even under the Census Act of 1948, the state government has not been given the right to conduct census,it added

This step of the state government is going to promote social disharmony as well as the notification of caste census is against the basic spirit of the constitution, the plea added

While citing the decision of the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court in the Abhiram Singh case in 2017, the petitioner said that, in this decision, the Supreme Court had said that seeking votes on caste and communal grounds is wrong, but for political reasons in Bihar Efforts are being made to divide the society on the basis of caste, the plea said