West Bengal won on Tuesday a two-and-a-half-year-old bitter battle over rosogolla (also known as rasgulla or rasogolla) as the Chennai-based Geographical Indications (GI) Registry announced that one of India’s signature sweets originated in the state and not Odisha. “It has been settled under the GI Act that authenticates a product relating to either a geographical location or community or society,” said Sanjay Bhattacharya, deputy controller of patents and designs in Kolkata. Odisha and Bengal have been locked in a bitter fight over the GI registration of rosogolla since 2015.

West Bengal won on Tuesday a two-and-a-half-year-old bitter battle over rosogolla (also known as rasgulla or rasogolla) as the Chennai-based Geographical Indications (GI) Registry announced that one of India’s signature sweets originated in the state and not Odisha. “It has been settled under the GI Act that authenticates a product relating to either a geographical location or community or society,” said Sanjay Bhattacharya, deputy controller of patents and designs in Kolkata. Odisha and Bengal have been locked in a bitter fight over the GI registration of rosogolla since 2015.