HC issued a fresh direction to the Centre to conduct caste-wise census in the country.

Allowing a PIL by lawyer R Krishnamoorthy, a Division Bench directed the Census Commissioner to take all steps to hold caste-wise enumeration.

The bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Elipe Dharma Rao and Justice T S Sivagnanam said the relief sought by the petitioner had already been answered in the affirmative by the court in an earlier verdict on a writ