Justice gets translated into 22 languages via Nyaya Setu

India has unveiled Nyaya Setu, an AI-powered legal assistant aimed at making justice more accessible through voice and multilingual support. Launched at Vigyan Bhawan, the platform is a multilingual legal-access chatbot built on Bhashini, India’s homegrown language AI stack — alongside its mascot Dishika. It supports voice and text across 22 scheduled languages and 36 written ones, drawing on more than 350 AI models. . News Source: Organiser The goal is simple but structural, to make India’s digital public infrastructure usable in every Indian language. . The Indian justice system has, in practice, long run in English — a quiet barrier that has excluded most citizens before they ever stepped into a courtroom. The design shift here is real: language is no longer being treated as a private problem to be solved by hiring a translator, but as public infrastructure the state itself maintains.