The Supreme Court judgements written in English will be first uploaded on its website and the translated versions in at least six regional languages, including Odia, will be made available on its website a week later.
The initiative came after President Ram Nath Kovind had highlighted the idea at a conference in saying that there is a need for translation of the court judgements in regional languages for the non-English speakers and to be made available by the High Courts.
According to reports, the apex court judgements will be translated into six regional languages such as Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Assamese and Odia.
For this purpose, Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi reportedly has cleared a software indigenously developed by the Supreme Court’s electronic software wing.
“It is important to not only take justice to the people, but also to make it understandable to litigating parties in a language they know. High Courts deliver judgements in English, but we are a country of diverse languages. The litigant may not be conversant with English and the finer points of judgement may escape him or her. The litigating parties will thus be dependent on a lawyer or another person to translate the judgement. This can add to time and cost,” the President had said at the valedictory function of the Diamond Jubilee Celebrations of High Court of Kerala in October 2017.