Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi mentioned the petition before a bench of Justices MM Sundresh and K Vinod Chandran, seeking urgent listing of the plea tomorrow.
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.
The Supreme Court was hearing a plea that sought the court to oversee the alleged incidents of mob violence and lynching that are particularly incited by Cow vigilante groups.
He was appointed as a judge of the Kerala High Court on November 8, 2011, and elevated to the Chief Justice of the High Court of Patna on March 23, 2023.
The notification issued stated that "in exercise of the powers conferred by clause (2) of Article 124 of the Constitution of India, the Hon'ble President of India is pleased to appoint Justice Krishnan Vinod Chandran, Chief Justice, Patna High Court, as a Judge of the Supreme Court of India,