CJI announces launch of e-SCR to provide verdicts in scheduled languages

Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud Wednesday said the electronic Supreme Court Reports (e-SCR) project will now start providing apex court judgments in various Indian scheduled languages ​​from Republic Day.

As soon as the bench assembled for the day, the CJI told the lawyers the apex court will operationalize 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 now have 1091 Supreme Court judgments in local languages ​​which will be available on Republic Day,” he said.

There are 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 of 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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