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The Bank of the Supreme Court said that Urdu and Marathi have the same status under the Constitution and rejected the claims that Marathi should only be used.
Supreme Court of India. (File photo/PTI)
In the midst of the current language row throughout the country, the Supreme Court confirmed on Tuesday the use of Urdu on the sign of a building of the municipal council in Maharashtra, stating that language is culture and should not become a cause for dling to people. The Superior Court said that Urdu “is the best specimen of Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb, or the Hindustani Tehzeeb.”
The court dismissed a petition that challenged the judgment of the Superior Bombay Court that allowed the use of Urdu on the sign of the new municipal council building, Patuur in the Akola de Maharashtra district.
According to the bar and bank, the Bank of the Supreme Court said that Urdu and Marathi have the same status under the Constitution and rejected the claims that Marathi should only be used.
The Bank added that it is a “wrong idea that Urdu is foreign to India,” stating that “it is a language that was born in this country.”
The court also said that Urdu, despite its Indian origin, has been associated with Muslims, which was far from reality, blaming the colonial powers of associating Hindi with Hindus and Urdu with Muslims. Urdu finds its roots in India and cannot be linked to any particular religion, said the court.
“Our wrong concepts, perhaps only our preaching against a language, have to be bravely and sincerely proven against reality, which is this great diversity of our nation: our strength can never be our Keaknu and Everdu.
“Upon reaching the present case, he must affirm that a municipal counter is there to provide services to the local community of the area and meet their immediate day needs. If people or a group of people, who reside within the municipal family, do not oppose if Urdu is also used in addition to the official language, that is, Marathi, at least on the sign of the municipal council”
The plea was raised by a former member of the Municipal Council, stating that the use of the URUCU language is inadmissible. First he approached the Municipal Council, which rejected his plea, and clarified that the use of URUCU in addition to the Marathi language on a sign is justified.