In the recent controversy concerning the caste-based survey in Bihar, the major concerns of the Patna HC are of data integrity and security, the possibility of the appropriation of massive funds in conducting the exercise and the very legality of the exercise itself: the population census is a Union subject under Article 246, which means the states do not have the constitutional right to carry out a census. The court issued the interim order after hearing five petitions filed by Youth for Equality, Delhi-based volunteer group ‘Ek Soch Ek Prayas’ and three activists from Bihar: Akhilesh Kumar, Muskan Kumar and Reshma Prasad. Prasad, a transgender activist from Bihar petitioned against the caste-based survey due to its essentially flawed nature in terms of addressing the transgender question in the state. The survey had identified the transgender community as a caste which is nothing but a travesty of justice for one of the most marginalised population of Bihar, to put it mildly. There were other concerns on behalf of the people from the Lohar community and some groups from Extremely Backward Classes.