© hindustantimes.com‘Misconception that Urdu is…’: Supreme Court allows its use in signboard at Maharashtra municipal council
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a plea challenging the use of Urdu on a municipal signboard in the town of Patur in Maharashtra’s Akola district.
The court said that the prejudice against Urdu “stems from the misconception that Urdu is alien to India”.
A bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and K Vinod Chandran said that Urdu was born in India, and that it is, like Marathi and Hindi, an Indo-Aryan language. “Urdu developed and flourished in India due to the need for people belonging to different cultural milieus who wanted to exchange ideas and communicate amongst themselves,” the court noted.