HC orders notice on PILs challenging caste survey in Karnataka

The Supreme Court of Karnataka ordered notification to government and central governments about the PIL petitions opened by more than one person and group questioning the legality of the socio-economic and educational survey planned to start on September 22nd.

On September 19, Justice Anu Sivaraman and Justice Rajesh Rai. K, Rajya Vokkaliga Sangha, Akhila Karnataka Brahmana Maha Sabha, lawyer Kn Subba Reddy and others passed the petitions.

The bench said that all petitions would be received for more hearing on September 22 to take into account the temporary objection to keep the petitions in the survey.

The bench was also notified to the Indian Editor -in -Chief and the Population Census Commissioner.

The petition holders claimed that the proposed survey only meant ‘caste census’, which is within the field of the Union Government in accordance with the provisions of the Indian Constitution, and that the state government lacks legislative or executive competence to carry out such exercise.

The proposed questionnaire, disorders, incomplete records, Karnataka State Commission Member Secretary Refusing the return and suppression of the results and the results of the conclusion of the Failed 2015 survey, he said.

“This questionnaire proposes to number about seven crore persons in 15 days, which contrasts with the union census covering a few months, and a non -scientific time schedule, in the petition, the Commission claims that the Backward Classes Law has no power under 1995 under 1995.