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Animal Welfare Board advises Centre not to allow jallikattu, claims PETA

Taking note of the statement, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India expressed its concern over the issue

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 The Animal Welfare Board of India (ABWI) has advised the environment ministry not to overturn the Supreme Court's judgement which presently bans the bull taming sport 'jallikattu' in Tamil Nadu, animal rights group PETA India claimed. On Tuesday, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar had said that the government will let cultural practices like jallikattu and a few other bullock races to continue while ensuring that animals are not subject to cruelty. 

Taking note of the statement, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India expressed its concern over the issue. "Immediately after PETA India complained about Javadekar's statement, the AWBI advised the ministry not to overturn the Supreme Court judgement which currently bans them in the country," the rights group said in a statement. "The advisory to the Secretary of the Environment Ministry from the Convenor of the AWBI's legal sub-committee expressed shock and deep concern about the media reports regarding Javadekar's promise to issue an executive order to allow jallikattu, bull races and similar events," he said.

The advisory further states that these kind of activities "have been struck down by the Supreme Court as illegal and unconstitutional." Quoting the advisory, PETA said, "You are, therefore, requested to urge the minister to refrain from taking any step to allow any such event...because the same will be at variance with the Supreme Court judgment in the matter of 'Animal Welfare Board of India Vs A. Nagaraja and Others' and at variance with law and the Indian Constitution." Javadekar had recently told reporters that jallikattu in Tamil Nadu, bullock cart race in Maharashtra, Kambala in Karnataka and other bullocks races in Punjab has been traditionally and culturally practiced for centuries.

"We want to respect that but also ensure that there should be no cruelty. Therefore, we will give you good news in the next couple of days. We will give you good news so that the cultural practice can be followed as well as cruelty should not happen to animals. We have found out some ways and will announce by January 1. The government is positive on the issue," he had said.
 

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