Friday, the 31st December 1948. Constituent Assembly Debates
Hindi for
-qualification of Supreme court Judge
Mr.
Naziruddin Ahmad-"It could
perhaps be safely assumed that, with the spread of compulsory primary
education, lawyers would be literate, and if one is not literate, he cannot be
a lawyer. To be a lawyer and also an Advocate, one has to pass certain tests in
literacy and commonsense. So that if one is not literate he could not be an
Advocate and so he could not be appointed a Judge of a High Court and he could
not also be appointed Judge of the Supreme Court.
Then with regard to
expressing themselves in the national language, I think if and when English is
to be discarded, Advocates and Judges must necessarily possess the minimum
literacy qualifications which are required of them and they ought to be able to
express themselves in the national language. With in a foreseeable period of
time, an Advocate, a Judge of the High Court or of the Supreme Court must
necessarily be able to express themselves in the English language, so long as
it is current, and thereafter, of course, in the national language."
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