Another petition was filed in the Supreme Court challenging the caste-based census in Bihar, the first phase of which was started in the state by the Nitish Kumar-led government on January 7 this year
Supreme Court on Monday, adjourned the hearing on the petition seeking caste census. A bench by Justice Nageswara Rao today said one such petition is pending in another bench as well. The Maharashtra government had already filed a petition in the Supreme Court on the subject of caste census.