PM Modi praises Supreme Court's move for regional languages, CJI Chandrachud responds with folded hands

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Independence Day celebrations at the Supreme Court, DY Chandrachud talked about PM Modi's speech. "PM today in his Independence Day speech at Red Fort mentioned the efforts of the Supreme Court to translate the judgments in regional languages.

Up to now, 9,423 judgments have been translated into regional languages," the top judge said. Several high courts have also commenced the practice of delivering legal decisions in languages spoken regionally, in addition to English.

Previously, the Supreme Court had chosen to issue its rulings in nine different regional languages back in 2019, a decision that received recognition and praise from the former President, Ram Nath Kovind. PM Modi praised CJI's efforts earlier also when in a Mumbai even CJI Chandrachud said that the “next step...

is to provide translated copies of the judgments of the Supreme Court in every Indian language." “At a recent function, the honorable CJI Justice DY Chandrachud spoke of the need to work towards making Supreme Court judgments available in regional languages. He also suggested the use of technology for it.

This is a laudatory thought, which will help many people, particularly youngsters," PM Modi tweeted while sharing a part of the video of CJI. (With inputs from PTI)