The Supreme Court on Friday adjourned the hearing of a batch of pleas challenging the constitutionality of the caste-based survey conducted by the Bihar government till January 2024. Notably, the.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday adjourned the hearing in a batch of pleas doubting the constitutionality of the caste-based survey conducted by the Bihar government last month. A bench of Justices.
A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court over the Bihar government including ‘hijra’, ‘kinnar’, ‘kothi’, and ‘transgender’ as an item in the caste list, while conducting its caste-based survey.
The now withdrawn affidavit maintained that the subject of census is covered in the Union List under Entry 69 in the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution and the Census Act, 1948 "empowers only the Union Government to conduct the census.”