Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 548 · Decided 18 May 2023
The Animal Welfare Board of India and ORS. v. Union of India & Anr
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 548 · [2023] 7 S.C.R. 426
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 23/2016
- Decided
- 18 May 2023
- Bench
- K.M. JOSEPH, AJAY RASTOGI, ANIRUDDHA BOSE, HRISHIKESH ROY, C.T. RAVIKUMAR (5-judge bench)
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 29, 48, 14, 21, 19
Headnote
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960 - Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Tamil Nadu Amendment) Act, 2017 - Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Maharashtra Amendment) Act, to Animals (Karnataka Second Amendment) Act, 2017 - Held: The expressions Jallikattu, Kambala and Bull Cart Race as introduced by the Amendment Acts of the three States have undergone substantial change in the manner they were used to be practiced or performed and the factual conditions
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