The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court today ordered notice to the Tamil Development department Secretary and others on a PIL seeking to provide infrastructure facilities, including trained Tamil typists, translators and related software, in trial courts in the state.
Justice V Ramasubramanian and Justice N Kirubakaran ordered notice returnable within two weeks on the petition by PIL litigant Muthuvelan.
The petitioner submitted that Official Languages Act and the high court's orders that Tamil should be official language and be used in trial courts had not been implemented by the governmment.
He said the government should provide the entire state and central government legislative enactments in Tamil language periodically to trial courts and to the library sections of the recognised advocates associations in the state.
He sought uniform Tamil software CD for preparation of pleadings, depositions and to publish the entire law books in Tamil language by way of CD and also upload same in respective official websites of the state.
The post of translators was lying vacant for several years and cost of translation of acts, deposition etc in Tamil was high, he said.
