The court did not find any corpus delicti in the Hare Krishna meeting

On July 6, the Central District Court of Tula terminated the proceedings on the case of an administrative violation against Sergei Fedonin, whom the police accused of organizing a public event without filing a notice of its holding (part 2 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) - for a meeting in the square of several citizens in the national clothes of the Indian religion Vaishnavism. It is reported by "TSN 24".

In court, Fedonin's representative said that there was no need to file a notice of such meetings. “It was not a rally, not a demonstration, not a picket or a procession. Those who gathered did not agitate for anything. There is no law prohibiting dancing and chanting the Hare Krishna mantra, ”the publication quoted him as saying. The case was dismissed for lack of corpus delicti.