The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Maharashtra to carry the normal bullock cart racing occasion, saying there was no motive to disallow it within the state when comparable sports activities had been happening at different locations throughout the nation.
“One nation, one caste, we should have unity and one rule. If the race is going on in other states, why should it not be allowed by Maharashtra,” Justice Khanwilkar, presiding over a two-judge bench, allowed the state’s utility looking for permission to carry the race.
‘It is a conventional sport that has been happening for a few years. The verdict got here and it was stayed. Then got here the modification and allowed in a regulated method. If it’s a conventional recreation and is occurring in all the nation besides Maharashtra, then it’s not according to widespread sense,” he mentioned.
The referenced judgment is the Supreme Court’s 2014 judgment in A Nagaraja v Union of India, during which it had banned Jallikattu, holding that it amounted to cruelty to bulls beneath the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PCA) Act.
On Thursday, the bench, additionally comprising Justice CT Ravikumar, mentioned states like Tamil Nadu and Karnataka had introduced amendments to the PCA Act after the 2014 Supreme Court ruling to permit Jallikattu and bullock cart races. Though these had been additionally challenged within the Supreme Court, the apex courtroom didn’t go any order and as an alternative referred the matter to a Constitution Bench.
However, though Maharashtra additionally amended the PCA Act in 2017 to permit working, the Bombay HC didn’t agree and stayed their maintain.
The bench on Thursday remarked that “the same arrangement should apply to the provisions of the State of Maharashtra which are similar to the amendments made in other states” and mentioned that the modifications enacted would proceed to function in the course of the pendency of the matter, observing that the SC had not handed any order towards the modifications made by TN and Karnataka.
Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, showing for Maharashtra, prayed that Tamil Nadu and Karnataka have been holding their packages yearly on the premise of their amendments, however Maharashtra has not been ready to take action.
Senior advocate Anand Grover, showing for Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organization (FIAPO), opposed Maharashtra’s request saying that the states can not declare parity with TN and Karnataka as no order has been handed by the SC of their amendments. But the HC had set its thoughts on the Maharashtra amendments and stayed them.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
