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4. Further the judgments of the High Courts are appealable to the Supreme Court and the Apex Court comprising of judges many of whom have no knowledge of Hindi language at all. Writing of judgment in Hindi would create problems in this regard as well.

5. In our Constitutional Scheme, judges of the High Courts are transferable and we have many judges in the Hindi belt area who are not conversant with the Hindi language.

Judgments delivered in Hindi may not be understood by the transferee judges from non Hindi belt area. Consequently there would be judges in the High Courts who would not be able to understand judgments of their own court.

3) I see one more problem. The cost of translation is prohibitive. If the Government and other documents are in English, as is the case in many of the States, they would all have to be translated. So too the evidence and judgments which are in English. Today English is the language in which judgments are written in the South-Asian countries except Nepal. Our judgments will no more have any influence and force in, say Bangladesh or Sri Lanka. Nor will they be read and understood in the other parts of the English-speaking world consisting mainly of Common Law countries. It is in the larger interests of the country that matters are left where they stand.

e) The Supreme Court judges deliver more than 10 to 15,000 judgments per year. The reported cases alone run to 12,000 pages. It is impossible to expect the Supreme Court judges who come from various States to deliver their judgments in Hindi. Even if they deliver it in Hindi, there would be a Herculean task of having it translated in English for the understanding of the legal and accounting professions and for various industries. (This problem will be multiplied 20 times for various High Courts)

(b) The proposed amendment will impose an unknown language on a large section of Indian population much against their wish.
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(c) This will lead a lot of practical problems in concluding cases in the High Courts as most the Judges, Advocates and almost all the litigant public are not conversant with Hindi language.
(d) Enforcing propagation of an unknown language on a large section of the population may disturb the common fabric of India and may result in social disturbances as well as law and order problems.