The Supreme Court on December 16, 2021 allowed Maharashtra to hold bullock cart races in the state till the pendency of the matter before the constitutional Bench of the apex court.
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- The races will be held in several parts of the state, especially Pune and the western Maharashtra region, where the 400-year-old tradition was prevalent.
- The Maharashtra government had told the Supreme Court that the ban on bullock cart races in the state should be lifted as the same is being conducted in the states like Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.
- Bullock cart races were banned in Maharashtra after the Supreme Court had declared that the race as violative of the provisions of the central act in 2014.
- After the Tamil Nadu government enacted a law to regulate jallikattu (taming of the bull), there was a demand to revive bullock races in Maharashtra.
- In April 2017, the Maharashtra assembly had passed a legislation for resumption of bullock cart races across the state.
- The Bill regularised the bullock race, a popular sport in rural Maharashtra which had been banned in 2014 on the ground that it caused pain and suffering to the bullocks.
(Source: IE)
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