Supreme Court orders will now be available in Konkani

NEW DELHI: The Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud on Wednesday said the electronic Supreme Court Reports (e-SCR) project will now start providing apex court judgements in various Indian scheduled languages from Republic Day including Konkani, a PTI report said.

Which means that Goans can access select orders and judgements in Konkani on the Supreme Court portal.

As soon as the bench assembled on Wednesday morning, the CJI announced before the lawyers present that 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,” the CJI 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 Supreme court website, its mobile app and on the judgment portal of the National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG). (PTI)