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Supreme Court keeps itself away from pro-Jallikattu protests in Tamil Nadu

New Delhi | ByPTI
Jan 19, 2017 06:39 PM IST

The Supreme Court preferred to stay away from the pro-Jallikattu protests across Tamil Nadu and said on Thursday the issue of protecting the agitating supporters of the bull-taming sport can be raised before the Madras high court.

The Supreme Court preferred to stay away from the pro-Jallikattu protests across Tamil Nadu and said on Thursday the issue of protecting the agitating supporters of the bull-taming sport can be raised before the Madras high court.

Students shout slogans and hold placards during a demonstration against the ban on Jallikattu, and calling for a ban on animal rights orgnisation PETA, at Marina Beach at Chennai.(AFP Photo)
Students shout slogans and hold placards during a demonstration against the ban on Jallikattu, and calling for a ban on animal rights orgnisation PETA, at Marina Beach at Chennai.(AFP Photo)

“Let the Madras high court deal with it. You (petitioner) go there. Why do you come all the way to Supreme Court,” a bench of Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justice D Y Chandrachud told a petitioner advocate who mentioned his plea seeking protection to the protestors who have assembled in large numbers at the Marina beach in Chennai for the third day on Thursday.

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Advocate N Rajaraman, who mentioned the plea before the bench, said the protestors should not be assaulted like the Ramlila Maidan incident of 2011 where Baba Ramdev supporters were lathicharged by police.

He said the court should take suo motu cognizance of the development and provide relief to the pro-Jallikattu agitators.

The bench, however, asked the petitioner to approach the high Ccourt for relief.

The development came on a day Tamil Nadu chief minister O Panneerselvam met Prime Minister Narendra Modi to seek promulgation of an ordinance to allow Jallikattu amid widespread protests in the state against the ban on the sport.

The apex court had reserved its verdict on December 7 last year on a batch of petitions challenging the Centre’s notification allowing the sport.

On the next day, the Centre had issued a notification lifting the ban on Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu with certain restrictions, which was challenged in the apex court by Animal Welfare Board of India, People for Ethical Treatment of Animals India, a Bangalore-based NGO and others.

The Supreme Court had on January 21 last year refused to re-examine its 2014 judgement banning use of bulls for Jallikattu events or bullock-cart races across the country.

It had also stayed the January 8 notification of Centre and questioned the Centre over the notification allowing use of bulls in events like Jallikattu, saying that its 2014 verdict banning the use of the animals cannot be “negated”.

The court in its 2014 judgement had said that bulls cannot be used as performing animals, either for Jallikattu events or bullock-cart races in the states of Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra or elsewhere in the country, and had banned their use across the country.

The Supreme Court had also earlier declared Tamil Nadu Regulation of Jallikattu Act, 2009 as constitutionally void, being violative of Article 254(1) of the Constitution.

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