Kerala High Court Prohibits Registry From Accepting Petitions With Vernacular Documents Unless Accompanied By English Translation
Case: K.M Mohammed Kutty v. State Transport Commissioner & Ors.
Coram: Justice Amit Rawal
Case No.: WP(C) NO. 16441 OF 2021
Court Observation: “The language of the High Court as per the Constitution of India is English and as well as in the High Court Rules. This Court has been sitting on the writ side almost two and a half years but the practice of filing the translation of documents has not been followed and in almost 90% of the cases, documents are filed in local/vernacular language. This writ petition should not have been entertained by the Registry until and unless there was a miscellaneous application filed on behalf of the advocate seeking exemption giving special and attenuating circumstances.”
“Some agreement is being introduced by the petitioner to have been entered into with the 4th respondent and further leasing out to the 3rd respondent. If at all there is a breach of the same, petitioner had an independent civil remedy to be availed of for settling the private dispute, cannot under the garb of threat of transferring the vehicle in favour of some other person present writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India.”
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