Even if They Know English, They Don’t Want to Speak: Supreme Court Justice Sandeep Mehta on Keralites

Even if they know English, they don’t want to speak: Supreme Court Justice Sandeep Mehta on Keralites

The Court made the observation while hearing a plea to transfer a divorce case from Kerala to Punjab.

‘Even if they know English, they don’t want to speak’: Supreme Court on Keralites

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday emphasised the importance of language accessibility in legal proceedings while hearing a plea seeking the transfer of custody and divorce cases from Kerala to Punjab. A Bench comprising Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta was considering a petition filed by a woman seeking to move the proceedings initiated by her husband in Kerala to a court in Ludhiana. ‘Even if they know English, they don’t want to s…

English use in Kerala; state’s language-friendliness: Supreme Court disagrees with lawyer’s remark

Supreme Court rejects claims on English use in Kerala state’s language-friendliness during a custody transfer hearing.