Ex Chief Justice SA Bobde Asks Why Sanskrit Can’t Be Official Language

Nagpur: 

Former Chief Justice of India Sharad Bobde today batted for Sanskrit as the country’s official language, including for use in courts, and said even the architect of the Constitution and eminent jurist BR Ambedkar had proposed it as per media reports from 1949.

He said Hindi and English are used as official languages in governance and courts as per law, while every chief justice receives representations seeking nod to introduce respective regional languages, which is now a reality in the district level judiciary and some high courts.

Mr Bobde was speaking at the Akhil Bhartiya Chhatra Sammellan organised by Sanskrit Bharti.

At the level of the high court, the official language is English, though many HCs have had to allow applications, petitions and even documents in regional languages, he said.