CJI announces launch of service to provide verdicts in some scheduled languages

Apex court verdicts, as part the e-SCR project, will be available on the apex court website, its mobile app and on the judgment portal of the National Judicial Data Grid

Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud on Wednesday announced that the top court’s judgements in various Indian scheduled languages would now be made available since Republic Day.

Before the start of proceedings, the CJI told the lawyers that a part of the electronic-Supreme Court Reports (e-SCR) project will be operationalised to make judgements available in some scheduled languages from Thursday. This will be a free access service.

The judgments will be available on the apex court website, its mobile app and on the National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG).

“We have the e-SCR (project), which now has nearly 34,000 judgments and an elastic search facility,” he said.

According to a statement, on the occasion of the 74th Republic Day, the Registry of Supreme Court would release translations of 1,268 judgments in different Indian languages. The translated versions of some Supreme Court Judgments are being made available in thirteen Indian languages Assamese, Garo, Hindi, Kannada, Khasi, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.

"To begin with a translation of 1,268 judgements i.e. 1091 Hindi, 21 Odia, 14 Marathi, 4 Assamese, 1 Garo, 17 Kannada, 1 Khasi, 29 Malayalam, 3 Nepali, 4 Punjabi, 52 Tamil, 28 Telugu and 3 Urdu; are being made available at the e-SCR portal. The portal which is the repository of the electronic version of Supreme Court Reports (SCR), the official publication of Supreme Court of India now has some new features in it," the statement said.

The work of translation of Supreme Court judgements in the Indian language is a continuous process and the translated versions will be uploaded on regular basis for the benefit of the users, it added.