The Supreme Court on Friday refused to stay the uploading of data collected in the recently concluded Bihar caste-based survey while debunking claims that the Nitish Kumar government has violated the fundamental right to privacy by compelling people to reveal their caste.
“How is the right to privacy affected when somebody is asked to give his caste or sub caste? That individual data is not released to the public… What is released is the cumulative figures,” Justice Sanjiv Khanna observed.
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