News SC puts interim ban on ‘cock-fights’ sport in AP

[Deepu]

The Supreme Court on Monday kept in place the ban on 'cock-fighting', a popular sport in rural coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh, while requesting the high court to decide afresh the legality of the game.

A bench headed by Chief Justice H L Dattu asked the HC to examine the issue in light of the apex court's earlier judgment banning 'jallikattu', or bull-taming sport, in Tamil Nadu. The SC had held that the manner in which scared bulls were made to run, sometimes after administration of intoxicants, it amounted to cruelty under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act.

The SC on Monday set aside the HC order banning cock-fighting as the basis for the judgment was not forthcoming.

SC puts interim ban on ‘cock-fights’ sport in AP - The Times of India

 

[IndianMascot]

Good decision to discourage cruelty against animals. But then why kill animals for meat ?

 

[Devesh]

Good decision but why we r killing animals for meat....

 

[Technoglitch]

Bull fight in TN is banned that is been conducted over the eras.

 

[NinadG]

Spain has a tradition for cruel things........

'Horror' in Spain: Live animals set on fire in centuries old festival

A cruel age-old tradition in which onlookers taunt a terrified bull whose horns have been sent on fire is still in vogue in Spain.

The Joy of the Bull -- or Toro Jubilo festival -- is one of the ‘cultural’ highlights of the medieval village of Medinaceli, in the province of Soria, north east of Madrid.

Animal rights activists have been demanding the banning of the festival, which features live bulls being set on fire and sent to charge about the village streets for entertainment.
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The bull, gasping and desperate, finally reaches a state of exhaustion after nearly 45 minutes of torment and is soon dragged out the ring by villagers to be butchered.

The men in the grey uniforms are awarded pieces of meat from the animal for their ‘bravery’.
Authorities in the Spanish regions of Leon and Castile have designated the festival a special cultural status.

Read more at: 'Horror' in Spain: Live animals set on fire in centuries old festival - Rediff.com India News

 

[Technoglitch]

but here in TN there is no such kind of cruelty done to the bulls and only the people would be injured in bull fight.

 

[NinadG]

In Maharashtra also SC ruled against bulls racing.....