Supreme Court to hear petitions to quash Jallikattu notification

The Supreme Court will on Tuesday (12 January 2016) hear a batch of petitions against a recent government notification permitting Tamil Nadu’s Jallikattu bull taming sport with some restrictions. An apex court bench headed by Chief Justice T.S. Thakur agreed to hear a plea on Tuesday after they were mentioned by senior counsel Siddharth Luthra on Monday morning.

JallikattuThe petitioners, who also include animal rights activist Gauri Maulekhi, have sought the quashing of a government notification on Friday to overcome the 2014 Supreme Court ban on Jallikattu.

The central government, in a gazette notification, removed bulls form the list of animals that are banned from public display.

The central government allowed bulls to be exhibited as a performing animal at Jallikattu and bullock-cart races in Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra and Punjab.

It is noteworthy that previously, vide its order dated 7 May 2014, the Supreme Court had  banned Jallikattu by passing a detailed order in the case of Animal Welfare Board of India  v.  A. Nagaraja, (2014) 7 SCC 547 (see that judgment here).

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