New Delhi, April 16 -- The Supreme Court recently held that the display of a language other than the official one of a State is not prohibited under any law in India, while dismissing a plea seeking the removal of an Urdu signboard of a municipal council in Maharashtra.

Upholding a decision of the Bombay High Court, an apex court bench comprising Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and K Vinod Chandran dismissed a plea seeking the removal of an Urdu signboard placed beneath a Marathi signboard on a new building of the municipal council in Maharashtra's Akola.

"Our misconceptions, perhaps even our prejudices against a language, have to be courageously and truthfully tested against the reality, which is this great diversity of our nation: Our stren...