Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud Wednesday said the
electronic Supreme Court Reports (e-SCR) project will now start providing
apex court judgements in various Indian scheduled languages from Reupublic
Day.
As soon as the bench assembled for the day, the CJI
told the lawyers the apex court will operationalise the part of the E-SCR
project on Thursday for providing verdicts in some local scheduled languages
free of cost.
"Apart from the e-SCR, we also have now 1091 Supreme
Court judgements in local languages which will be available on the
Republic Day," he said.
There are of 22 languages in the Eighth Schedule of
the Constitution. They include Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada,
Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi,
Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Bodo, Santhali, Maithili and Dogri.
The 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 (NJDG).
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