Click to play videoNew Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday imposed a ban on Jallikattu, Tamil Nadu’s famous bullfighting event in response to a petition filed by the Animal Welfare Board.
Last year, the Madras High Court allowed the event to take place though it imposed certain conditions like double barricading, putting bulls through drug and alcohol tests and stationing ambulances and mobile medical teams at the venues.
This year, animal rights activists appealed for a ban saying it amounts to animal cruelty and the many men who take part in taming the bull also suffer severe injuries.
The annual event is said to date back to the 3rd century during the Pandya rule, which is well before Spain's bullfight evolved.
The state government-backed sport draws many foreign tourists. Government says that the measures ensured that there was no cruelty to the bulls and no deaths but only injuries caused to the tamers at the main venues.
That is a line activists were not willing to buy.
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