IndiaToday.in | Edited by Kritika Banerjee
New Delhi, November 6, 2017 | UPDATED 13:24 IST
The Tamil Nadu Assembly in January this year passed a law making jallikattu, the bull-taming sport, legal in the state.
The Supreme Court today issued a notice to the Tamil Nadu government on a plea by PETA challenging the law on jallikattu, the bull-taming sport.
The Supreme Court has sought a reply from the Tamil Nadu government within four weeks on the plea moved by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
The Supreme Court has tagged the PETA plea with the petitions of the Animal Welfare Board and other NGOs challenging the law passed by the Tamil Nadu Assembly in January this year which made jallikattu legal in the state.
Following widespread protests against the ban on jallikattu, the Tamil Nadu Assembly passed a bill, replacing an ordinance, that made the bull-taming sport legal in the state after it was banned by the Supreme Court in 2014.
The law while legalising the sport also laid out various safety measures in favour of the bulls and the manner in which the sport should be held.
Actor Kamal Haasan, coming out in support of jallikattu, had said that "if you want to ban jallikattu, let's also ban biryani". "I am a proud Tamilian, this is our culture," the actor said at the India Today Conclave in January this year.
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