Written by: Press Trust of India
1 min readMumbaiSep 16, 2013 01:03 AM IST
First published on: Sep 16, 2013 at 01:03 AM IST
Billed to be the first of its kind in India,Kanoon Lugat,an Urdu law dictionary was released in Mumbai on Sunday.
The dictionary,encompassing 52,000 legal terms,has been translated in Urdu for the first time, said chief translator and Supreme Court advocate Muhammad Irshad Hanif,at the event.
Hanif has also translated the Indian Penal Code and the Indian Evidence Act in Urdu,and published two books Taziraat-e-Hind and Qanoon Shahadat-e-Hind.
The Urdu legal dictionary has a foreword written by former Chief Justice of India
Altamas Kabir.