State moves apex court over stay on caste survey

Patna: A week after the Patna high court clamped an interim stay on the caste survey in the state, the government on Thursday filed a special leave petition (SLP) in the Supreme Court, challenging the interim order.
The state government has also challenged another May 9 order of Patna high court, where the state's plea for early hearing of all PILs was rejected.
Filing of the SLP was confirmed by advocate general of Bihar P K Shahi, who reportedly left for New Delhi on Thursday evening.
Sources said the SLP is likely to be mentioned for urgent hearing before the apex court goes for summer vacation.
On May 4, a division bench of chief justice K Vinod Chandran and Justice Madhuresh Prasad, while hearing PILs filed by a civic forum namely ‘Youth for Society’ and other four petitioners, had imposed immediate stay on the caste-based survey being conducted by state government with further direction to keep the survey data, collected so far, intact and unshared.