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Bull-wrestling is legal in India again after PM overturns Supreme Court ban

Members of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagham (DMK) stop a train during a demonstration against the ban on the Jallikattu bull taming ritual and call for a ban on animal rights orgnisation PETA, in Chennai on January 20, 2017. PHOTO: AFP

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has overturned a Supreme Court ban on a bull-wrestling festival that fuelled massive protests in southern India by demonstrators who called it an attack on their culture.

India's Supreme Court outlawed the Jallikattu festival last year after a plea by animal rights groups, which have long accused participants in the event -- held every year in different parts of southern Tamil Nadu state -- of cruelty to the animals.

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