en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu

This sentence appears to mix up Shah Abdul Qadir Dehlavi with Shah Abdul Qadir Raipuri.

Credible sources on Urdu Qur’an translation identify the earliest complete and published Urdu translation as the work of Shah Abdul Qadir of Delhi (also called Dehlavi/Dehlawi), not Abdul Qadir Raipuri. Dawn, summarizing Urdu scholar Jamil Jalibi, states that Shah Abdul Qadir’s translation, published from Delhi in 1829, is the first complete and published Urdu translation of the Quran.

By contrast, academic sources identify Abd al-Qadir Raipuri as a much later figure: a Deobandi religious scholar who lived 1878–1962. That makes it impossible for him to have been the first Urdu translator of the Qur’an, which predates him by decades.

So the claim is incorrect because it attributes the milestone to the wrong Abdul Qadir.

This sentence overstates the combined number of native Urdu speakers in India and Pakistan.

Official Indian census data lists 50,772,631 Urdu mother-tongue speakers in India in 2011. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics lists 22,249,307 Urdu mother-tongue speakers in Pakistan in the 2023 census. Added together, that is about 73.0 million, not “over 100 million.”

So while Urdu has far more than 100 million speakers if second-language speakers are included, the claim specifically says native speakers, and that is contradicted by the official counts cited in the same paragraph.

The figure given here appears to have lost a zero.

The official 2011 Census of India reports 5,07,72,631 Urdu mother-tongue speakers nationwide, i.e. about 50.8 million. That means the article’s phrase “5.08 million Urdu speakers” understates the count by roughly 45 million people.

The surrounding claim that Urdu speakers declined between 2001 and 2011 may refer to a modest decrease from the 2001 total, but the specific number printed here is plainly incorrect.

The infobox wording implies that Urdu has additional-official-language status across all of West Bengal. But the governing state law is narrower.

The West Bengal Official Language (Amendment) Act, 2012 says Urdu is to be used officially only in local areas “where the population of Urdu speaking people exceeds ten per cent”—specifically, in a district, subdivision, block, or municipality meeting that threshold. That is not the same as statewide additional-official status.

So describing West Bengal simply as “West Bengal (additional)” is misleading without the legal limitation to qualifying local areas.