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Russian court dismisses plea to ban Gita
Published on 22 Mar, 2012 at 10:34 in World | Viewed 405 views times | No Comments
New Delhi: Hindus in Russia Wednesday won a major legal battle when a court in the Siberian city of Tomsk threw out a case filed by the state prosecutors seeking a ban on a Russian translation of a commentary on the Bhagavad Gita.
The higher court in Tomsk, before which the state prosecutors had filed an appeal, upheld a lower court…
‘Ban Gita’ court battle restarts in Russia
Published on 20 Feb, 2012 at 11:28 in World | Viewed 356 views times | No Comments
Moscow/New Delhi: Hindus in Russia are bracing for a fresh court battle against attempts in the Siberian city of Tomsk to get their sacred ‘Bhagavad Gita’ branded as “extremist literature” and banned, after the state prosecutors filed an appeal against an earlier judgment in December last year throwing out their case.
The state prosecutors have already filed their appeal in the…
‘Ban Gita’ plea dismissed in Russia
Published on 29 Dec, 2011 at 10:09 in World | Viewed 448 views times | No Comments
New Delhi: Hindus in Russia Wednesday posted a major victory in a hard-fought six-month legal battle as a Siberian court axed a plea seeking to ban the Bhagavad Gita and to brand the holy text ‘extremist’ literature, even as hopes were expressed that the state prosecutors do not appeal against the verdict.
During the final hearing in the Leninsky district court…
‘Bhagvad Gita’ faces ‘extremist’ branding, legal ban in Russia
Published on 17 Dec, 2011 at 12:16 in Editorial | Viewed 734 views times | No Comments
Moscow: Bhagvad Gita, one of the most sacred Hindu religious texts, is facing a legal ban and the prospect of being branded as ‘an extremist’ literature across Russia, with a court in Siberia’s Tomsk city all set to deliver its final verdict on Monday in a case filed by state prosecutors.
The final pronouncement in the case will come just two…
