Bihar Caste Census: The High Court will hear the caste census today, the Supreme Court had returned it to the government
A hearing will be held in the Patna High Court on Monday on the dream project of Bihar's Grand Alliance government 'caste-based census'.
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After the end of the summer vacations, the socio-political atmosphere in Bihar will be hot on Monday amid rain drops. A hearing will be held in the Patna High Court on Monday regarding the dream project of Bihar's Grand Alliance government and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's caste-based census. The High Court had prima facie considered the 'caste-based enumeration' being told by the Bihar government as a caste-based census and put an interim stay on it. After this stay, the next date was given on July 3. The state government went to the Supreme Court against the order of interim stay of the High Court, but did not get relief.
Petitioner twice, government returned once
On May 19, for the third time, the Supreme Court had sent the case of Bihar's caste-based population census to the Patna High Court. When the petition reached twice in the name of public interest, the Supreme Court returned it as a case of the High Court. After this, a hearing was held in the Patna High Court and here on May 04, the interim decision came against the state government. The court, while putting an interim stay on the caste-based census process, had ordered all the data collected till May 04 to be kept safe. Seeing the interim order against it from the Patna High Court, the Nitish government of Bihar had reached the Supreme Court without waiting for the next date. The Supreme Court clearly said- “There is a lot of clarity in the interim decision of the Patna High Court, but without the final decision, there will be no hearing in the Supreme Court. If the High Court will not give its decision after hearing on its given date of 03 July, then the Supreme Court will hear the arguments here on 14 July.
High court will have to take decision in 10 days
As far as the Patna High Court gave an interim order after hearing on May 04, beyond that the debate will start on July 03. Last time, the state government's stand was not shown very strongly in the High Court and it also came to the fore that the government was apprehensive of a decision against itself. This is the reason why after the interim decision, the state government once appealed that the final decision should be given after an early hearing, stating that the date of July 03 is long. The government's plea to reduce the date period went in vain. The court did not give any relief in this also.

