The High Court of Karnataka on Friday directed the State government to file an affidavit on the facts about whether Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes Commission (KSCBC) had submitted a report on caste-wise survey as a government advocate orally told the court that they are “not aware of submission of report.”
A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice N.V. Anjaria and Justice T.G. Shivashankare Gowda issued the direction while hearing a PIL petition, filed in 2015, questioning the direction issued in 2014 by the State government to the commission to conduct a caste-wise social survey.
It was contended in the petition, filed by Shivraj Kanshetty, that the validity of the amendment made to the KSCBC Act, authorising the commission to make a caste-based survey of the social and educational conditions of people of the State was unconstitutional as power to conduct any caste-based survey/census is vested with the Central government and not with the State government.
