SC agrees to give urgent hearing to plea challenging Caste Census in Bihar

The Supreme Court agreed to give urgent hearing to petition challenging the Bihar government’s notification for conducting the Caste Census in the state. A bench led by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud said that it will hear the petition on Friday. Meanwhile, another petition was moved in the Supreme Court recently by a social worker Akhilesh Kumar through Advocates Barun Kumar Sinha and Abhishek. His petition mentioned, “That the cause of action arose on/from the impugned issued by Deputy Secretary, Government of Bihar, whereby decision of the Government to conduct caste census has been communicated to the media and public at large.”

The petitioner Akhilesh Kumar said that the decision of State of Bihar is illegal and arbitrary, irrational, unconstitutional and without the authority of law. According to the plea, in the state of Bihar, there are 113 castes which are known as OBC and EBC, eight castes which are included in Scheduled Caste category.