New Delhi: The Supreme Court judgments will soon be available in six Indian languages - Hindi, Telugu, Assamese, Kannada, Marathi, and Odia. The translations of the apex court's judgments are set to be introduced on the court's website by the end of the month.
The move to make Supreme Court judgments multilingual is reportedly credited to a 2017 conference held in Kochi, during which President Ram Nath Kovind highlighted the need to render judgments in regional languages for the benefit of non-English speakers.
Chief Justice Of India Ranjan Gogoi, has reportedly commenced working with the Supreme Court Registry to make the judgments available in regional languages the same year.
The six regional languages named were chosen for the initial phase based on the number of appeals coming in from the High Courts of the states where these languages are spoken. A similar exercise will reportedly be carried out in the second phase as well.
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