Prime Minister, Narendra Modi on Sunday lauded Chief Justice of India (CJI) Justice DY Chandrachud for thinking about making Supreme Court judgments available in regional languages.
“At a recent function, the Hon’ble Chief Justice of India Justice DY Chandrachud spoke of the need to work towards making SC 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", said Modi in a tweet.
The Prime Minister wrote on Twitter and shared on the site the relevant clip of the CJI's speech delivered at an event organized by the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa in Mumbai. Modi further said, “India has several languages, which add to our cultural vibrancy. The Central Government is undertaking numerous efforts to encourage Indian languages including giving the option of studying subjects like engineering and medicine in one’s Matru Bhasha.” Modi has, for long, been pitching for doing away with several old practices, abolishing obsolete laws, and underlining the need to “encourage the use of local languages in courts”.
He holds the view that since a large section of the country’s population “finds it difficult to understand the judicial process and court rulings,” local languages should be used in judicial process which will make justice easily accessible to the poor.
The CJI on Saturday indicated that the next step for the Indian judiciary in an increasingly digitised world would be to make judgments from various courts available in all Indian languages, possibly with the help of Artificial Intelligence tools.
The CJI who was first elevated as a judge to the Bombay High Court before reaching the Supreme Court was speaking at an event organised by the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa to felicitate him.
"I met with a professor of Madras who works in AI and the next step is to have judgments in all regional languages of the country," he said.