Hinting at a “thorough overhaul of India's social and legal justice system in local language”, Prime Minister Narender Modi today batted for a “simplified law in local language of common people” and urge Chief Ministers to junk all archaic laws in their States to give social justice to poor people across India.
Supreme Court and High Courts deliver justice in English language as Chief Justice of India himself has pointed out setting a positive stage for new development in this direction, Prime Minister said.
CMs Should Work to Junk all Dated Laws in States
Central government has scraped 1450 dated laws out of 1800 such laws identified at the Centre, Prime Minister said.
Giving an example from Central government’s own initiative on scrapping the dated laws, Prime Minister urged Chief Ministers of all states to junk all such archaic laws and make social justice and legal justice system “accessible and understandable to common people in their language, which they better grasp and understand”.
Addressing the Conference of Chief Ministers and Chief Justices of High Courts and Law Ministers of all the states and heads of the union territories in New Delhi today, Prime Minister further said social Justice delivery system can take justice to common people if law is simplified in a local language.
Modi quoted Sanskrit Sloka from scriptures (Shashtras) saying that country’s "Swaraj (self-rule) is based on justice".
If justice system is in local language common man will understand it, he added. 
A big population of India faces huge problem in understanding gamut of law and legal procedures and justice system, which is in English language, Prime Minister said.
Prime Minister said the States and Courts should promote local language in Courts that will open doors to the children of the poor people to understand law and legal system in lingua franca.
Modi made a fervent appeal to the Chief Ministers to scrap all dated laws and work in the directions of simplifying the laws and legal system.
Prime Minister said he has constituted a group of experts to work in the direction of simplification of the legal terminology in local languages that majority understand and grasp.
Modi said many countries have made law both in its legal frame work and in its local language and both are valid. “We also need to do this here”, he added.
Prime Minister said many States have initiated Medical and Technical education in mother tongue, which is a good development.
“This is also, in a way, social justice as many people are unnecessarily entangled in cases due to archaic laws”, he said.
He said they had scrapped dated 1450 laws out of 1800 identified in the country. But the state have done away with only 75 such laws so far, he said.
Another major area of concern is “nuances” of legal terminology and language, said Prime Minister.
If the states take such steps in simplifying the legal and social justice system, people will bless them as it will amount to be a great service in the direction of delivery of social justice system, Modi said.
Apart from Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju, Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh Jai Ram Thakur, Uttarakhand Pushkar Singh Dhami and other Himalayan states also participated in the conference.
