Madurai: Madras high court on Wednesday disposed of a plea, which sought to streamline the system of providing tokens for bulls to participate in jallikattu events conducted in Madurai district.
A division bench of Justices Pushpa Sathyanarayana and P Velmurugan said that directions have been issued earlier by this court regarding the conduct of jallikattu. The judges also took note of the fact that the government has also issued standard operating procedures to the officials of all the government departments with regard to jallikattu events.
Hence, the judges said that no separate order is required in this regard and disposed of a public interest litigation filed by S Mahendran, a resident of Uchapatti village in Madurai district.
In his petition, the petitioner stated that though jallikattu is conducted across the state, the jallikattu events conducted at Madurai district are very famous. He stated that jallikattu is conducted at 23 places starting with Avaniyapuram on January 14, 2022.
He stated that though officials from various departments along with the organizing committees make arrangements for the jallikattu events, the tokens for bulls are issued on whims and fancies. Due to this reason several bulls are not able to take part in the events, despite getting tokens.
The petitioner stated that tokens for bulls should be issued on a first come first serve basis in order to avoid such confusions. Instead of making all the bulls line up behind the vadivasal of the jallikattu arena, a group of 50 bulls per batch could be lined up by fixing steel barricades. Since no actions were taken by the authorities on the representation submitted in this regard, the petitioner moved HC Madurai bench seeking relief.
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