If lawyers are really interested in making Tamil an official language of the Madras High Court, they should start translating all English legal terms in simple Tamil instead of resorting to agitations such as sitting on fast unto death, Justice G. Jayachandran of the Madras High Court said on Monday.
When advocate G. Bhagavath Singh sought a direction to the Greater Chennai police to permit an indefinite fast, the judge said, the court could not endorse such life threatening agitations and asked an Additional Public Prosecutor to find out by Wednesday as to what other form of protest could be allowed.
Giving a piece of advice to all lawyers interested in making Tamil as one of the official languages in High Court proceedings, the judge asked them to start arguing in the language before judges like him who were conversant with it and were willing to allow such arguments in the vernacular language.
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