“The Bombay High Court has ordered that people in Maharashtra must learn Marathi and cannot use “not knowing the language” as an excuse.”
What FACTLY found
The Bombay High Court has not ordered that people in Maharashtra must learn Marathi and cannot use “not knowing the language” as an excuse. No credible news report or official record shows that such a directive was issued. In September 2019, petitioner Bhagwanji Raiyani argued he could not understand certain Marathi documents. The bench of Justice Satyaranjan Dharmadhikari and Justice Gautam Patel noted that if a litigant does not understand Marathi, it is time to learn it; however, this was ...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 28 November 2025. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 8 December 2025, 10 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
- Instagram posthttps://www.instagram.com/p/DRmXtjNEV4g/
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