The Karnataka High Court made history on Monday by hearing submissions advanced by a speech and hearing-impaired advocate Sarah Sunny through a Certified sign language interpreter.

A single judge bench of Justice M Nagaprasanna recorded appreciation for the advocate and said that the "Counsel for the petitioner's wife, Sarah Sunny had made elaborate submissions, through a sign language interpreter and the submission made by Sarah Sunny needs to be appreciated and the appreciation is placed on record though it is through the sign language

Additional Solicitor General Arvind Kamath also lauded the effort of the court by saying that by allowing Sara to make her submission, the Court had made history.

"Karnataka High Court will go down in history as the first high court to have heard a hearing and speech advocate through an interpreter. I understand that she (Adv Sara) has appeared before the Chief Justice of India, but in terms of the high court this will be the first,” the ASG said.

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