<span style="color: #222222;">Bihar government today moved to the Supreme Court challenging Patna High Court verdict which put an interim stay on the Caste-Based Survey midway in the state.<br />''<br />''Earlier, on the 8th of this month, the Patna High Court had also rejected the interlocutory application seeking early hearing of the case.  So the State government has filed a petition in the Apex Court.<br />''<br />''The division bench of Chief Justice K Vinod Chandran and Justice Madhuresh Prasad stuck to its previous decision that it will hear the case on July 3rd of this year. <br />''<br />''On the 4th of May, the High Court put an immediate stay on the Caste-based survey citing the reason that the Survey is a census in the garb of a Survey. The High Court cited that the power to carry out Census is vested in Parliament.</span><br />