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.
The 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).
