Legally India ( @LegallyIndia ) tweeted: “SC puts stop to Jallikattu petitioner vs retd Justice KS Radhakrishnan for accepting PETA award” The Hindu ( @the_hindu ) tweeted: “Justice Radhakrishnan, author of the judgment banning jallikattu, received a ‘Man of the Year’ award from PETA” SC stays Madra...

Prashant Bhushan, acting for the NGO Angel Trust, has filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court that more stringent punishments should be levied against those convicted of cruelty against animals, particularly in the pet shops industry.

The Himachal Pradesh High Court has rapped the central and the state government authorities on the misuse of oxytocin and directed for measures to regulate the manufacture, import and distribution of drugs liable to misuse. There is rampant misuse of oxytocin in dairy, agriculture and horticulture a...

The Supreme Court yesterday declined to entertain three review petitions of its original 7 May 2014 judgment banning Jallikattu, reported The Hindu , only a week after the Supreme Court had ordered that the Centre’s restarting of Jallikattu was illegal and declined to vacate its order. As reported b...

After having lost two rounds in the Supreme Court, first on 12 January and again on on 13 January the Jallikattu fans in Tamil Nadu appear to be a determined lot, keeping all their hopes in the Apex Court once again.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to vacate its order barring the bull taming sport Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu that is held during Pongal festivities beginning on Thursday. An apex court bench comprising Justice Dipak Misra and Justice NV Ramana declined to lift an earlier order that put on hold...

The Supreme Court will hear at 3 p.m. on Wednesday a bunch of petitions seeking vacation of the stay on the bull taming sport Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu. Counsel Raja Ramana, appearing for the petitioners, told an apex court bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra that Jallikattu was a matter of faith and...

The Supreme Court has stayed the Centre’s notification that allowed Central Government’s notification allowing Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu.

The Supreme Court bench comprising the Chief Justice TS Thakur, and Justices AK Sikri and R Banumathi, is set to hear as many as five writ petitions challenging the validity of the notification issued by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change on 7 January permitting the holding of jallikattu and other related festivals involving the performance of bulls in religious festivals, despite the Supreme Court’s 2014 judgment holding it illegal.

In a notification issued on 7 January, the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, has suggested that bulls may continue to be exhibited or trained as a performing animal, at events such as Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu and bullock cart races in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Punjab, Haryana, Kerala and Gujarat in the manner by the customs of any community or practiced traditionally under the customs or as a part of culture, in any part of the country.

In a significant ruling, a federal judge in San Francisco has declined to give a macaque monkey the right to his famous selfie in Indonesia in 2011.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Rajasthan government on a plea for prohibiting the use of elephants in the Amer Fort and the Elephant Village for joy rides and exhibitions and to protect them from the cruelty they were being subjected to. A bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice ...

The Supreme Court on Friday sought a response from the central and Kerala governments on a public interest suit seeking immediate halt to the killing of street dog by Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation. Notice has also been issued to Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation. A bench of Justice...

The reported comments of the Chief Justice of India, Justice HL Dattu, while refusing to entertain a petition from a journalist from Chennai seeking a ban on the sacrifice of animals during religious festivals across the country, have led to considerable consternation.

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to interfere with the religious practice of sacrificing animals to please gods and goddesses across the country on the plea that it amounted to cruelty to animals under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act. Declining to entertain the PIL by Varaaki, a Chennai-...

To mark the International Day of Justice on Friday, animal activists will come together in the national capital to demand that the Constitution recognise all animals as sentient beings. The two-week campaign titled “Demand Justice for Animals” was launched by the Federation of Indian Animal Protecti...

The NGO People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has recognised former Supreme Court Justice KS Panicker Radhakrishnan its man of the year award. In a press release, PETA wrote: For heading the bench that passed the landmark judgement in favour of PETA India and the government body the Ani...

NGO workers attacked by a violent mob, saved by police, then arrested by them.

Supreme Court justices KS Radhakrishnan and Pinaki Chandra Ghose have banned Tamil Nadu bull fighting at the Jallikattu festival, which “severely harmed” the bulls and was illegal under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act (PCA) BBC . The judges wrote: “Bulls cannot be used as performing animals...

NGO People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has won its nearly two-year legal battle to move an elephant, named Sunder, to a sanctuary in Bangalore, after shooting video footage of Sunder having been beaten, chained and abused by his keeper at a temple. Senior counsel Shiraz Rustomjee and...