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Stung by a Siberian court’s rejection of their plea seeking a ban on Bhagavad Gita and branding it extremist literature, Russian prosecutors are now planning to move a higher court for appeal. Insisting that the Russian translation of the Hindu text “Bhagavad Gita As It Is” should be banned for promoting “social discord”, prosecutors in the Siberian city of Tomsk have moved the local court seeking more time to file an appeal.

Stung by a Siberian court's rejection of their plea seeking a ban on Bhagavad Gita and branding it extremist literature, Russian prosecutors are now planning to move a higher court for appeal.

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Bringing an end to a six-month-long legal battle, a Russian court on Wednesday rejected a ban on a translated version of the Bhagavad Gita, a verdict welcomed by the Indian government as a “sensible resolution of a sensitive issue”.