The milestone was achieved on October 5, 2026, by the High Court’s Suvas Cell, which functions under the AI-Assisted Legal Translation Advisory, e-HCR and ILR Committee. To commemorate the achievement, a souvenir titled “The Vernacular Voice of Justice” was released.
According to a press release issued by the High Court administration, Chief Justice Arun Bhansali personally uploaded the one-lakhth translated judgment to the website. Judges Arindam Sinha, Atul Sreedharan, Siddharth Varma, Ajit Kumar, Sameer Jain and Vikram D. Chauhan were also present on the occasion. Justices Sameer Jain and Vikram D. Chauhan symbolically uploaded translations of their own judgments.
Justice Ajit Kumar, who heads the committee overseeing the initiative, congratulated the Suvas Cell on the achievement. The Chief Justice and other judges described the accomplishment as a significant step towards ensuring easier access to justice in the language understood by the common people.
The translation initiative began after a directive issued on January 23, 2023, following an initiative of then Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud, asking all High Courts to establish translation committees. The Suvas Cell was set up at the Allahabad High Court on August 16, 2023, and uploaded its first Hindi-translated judgment a week later on August 23.
The cell completed 50,000 translations by December 12, 2025, and has now doubled that figure within less than a year. At present, it translates all reportable (AFR) judgments, final non-AFR orders running beyond three pages, Supreme Court judgments related to Uttar Pradesh and select judgments concerning the Bombay and Andhra Pradesh High Courts.
Officials said 9,161 Supreme Court judgments have also been translated into Hindi and submitted to the apex court. In addition, the High Court has published seven editions of Nyayabha – Nyay Ki Kiran and six editions of its Historic Judgments E-booklet.
Among the landmark rulings translated into Hindi are the Chauri Chaura case, the Keshav Singh case and the Raj Narain versus Indira Gandhi judgment, all of which are available free of charge on the High Court’s website.
