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Relief to Bihar government, SC refuses to hear petitions filed against population census

January 20, 2023
Bharat Times

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has refused to hear the petitions filed against the population census in Bihar. The court said that these petitions are a matter of publicity interest. Why did the petitioners not approach the Pune High Court in this matter? The bench of Justice BR Gavai and Justice Vikram Nath said this while hearing the matter. How did Justice Gavai remark that if stopped, the government would determine what conclusion to draw?

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Three petitions have been filed regarding the population census in Bihar. The petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court by an organization called Ek Soch Ek Prayas, Hindu Sena and Biharvasi Kumar. Hindu Sena has said in its petition that the Bihar government wants to break the integrity and unity of India by conducting the census, in which the decision of the Bihar government in the case of caste census has been challenged in the Supreme Court.

Seven questions were raised in this petition before the Supreme Court.

  1. Bihar government is violating the documents related to population census?
  2. Does the Constitution of India empower the State Government to conduct population census?
  3. Is the report issued by the Deputy Secretary to the Government of Bihar on June 6 against the Census Act 1948?
  4. Does the law allow the state to report income census information in the absence of a law?
  5. Whether the decision of the State Government to conduct population census has been taken by all the political parties in unanimity?
  6. Are the decisions of political parties binding on the government for Bihar population census?
  7. Is the Bihar government’s notification of June 6 against the Supreme Court’s constitution bench’s decision in the Abhiram Singh case?

For the population census in Bihar, a notification has been issued by the state government on June 6 demanding its cancellation. The petition also seeks to stop the Bihar government from conducting the population census.

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