Chennai
Chidambaram, now in CBI custody, has done nothing good for the State or its people, charged Shanmugam, whose comments came in the wake of the Supreme Court extending Chidambaram’s custody in connection with the INX Media case.
Commenting on the announcement that the Supreme Court judgements would be translated into Tamil and uploaded on the court’s website, Shanmugam, who handles the Law portfolio, said that the State was waiting for more details from the Centre. The government would extend all support to translate the judgements if the Centre was searching for experts, Shanmugam added.
Recently, Union Law Minister Ravishankar Prasad had announced in the Lok Sabha that artificial intelligence was used on a trial basis to translate the judgements into regional languages. A committee was constituted to translate them into nine languages, including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Odiya, Assamese and Urdu.
To a query on the release of seven Rajiv Gandhi assassination case convicts, the Minister said the AIADMK government and former leader J Jayalalithaa remain steadfast on releasing them. The government had also passed a cabinet resolution and forwarded it to Governor Banwarilal Purohit for his consent. “We are hoping that the Governor will soon take a positive decision on this,” the Minister added.
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