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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to issue interim stay on publication of data of the caste-based survey carried out in Bihar and questioned the petitioners' argument that it is against the right to privacy...
A top court bench made it clear that it will not issue any interim stay on the publication of the survey unless a prima facie case is made out...
The court was informed the survey was completed by the Bihar government on August 6..
The petitions will come up for resumed hearing on Monday.. On August 1, the Patna High Court had found no illegality in the state's decision to undertake the caste survey..
A division bench of the High Court had held that the actual survey does not contemplate any coercion to divulge details and that the action passes the test of proportionality..
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