The claim
The Bombay High Court has ordered that people in Maharashtra must learn Marathi and cannot use “not knowing the language” as an excuse.
Original review summary
The review says the court made no general order requiring people in Maharashtra to learn Marathi or face action. It explains that the remarks arose in a specific 2019 case involving a litigant who said he did not understand Marathi documents. The cited constitutional and statutory provisions do not impose a language-learning requirement or punishment for ordinary citizens, the review says.[S1]
Additional context
The review describes the 2019 dispute as involving Marathi-language municipal documents submitted in a case concerning a residential certificate; the litigant argued that he did not understand them. [S1]
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Sources and attribution
- [S1] FACTLY original review
Original review · Retrieved October 16, 2026
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