jallikattu +withdraw last year's notification allowing jallikattu +Bill passed by the Tamil Nadu Assembly +NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to stay the Tamil Nadu government's law permitting, but agreed to hear a plea against the law.A bench of Justices Dipak Misra and R F Nariman allowed the Centre to, and issued a notice to Tamil Nadu on the validity of the new state law. The court gave the state government six weeks to reply to it.The court also slammed the Tamil Nadu government for allowing people to defy its order on jallikattu, and for failing to maintain law and order in the state. The court had banned the controversial sport in 2014, on the grounds that it was cruel to bulls. They said the law was illegal and unconstitutional.Tamil Nadu legislators passed the Bill on January 23, after the state witnessed pro-jallikattu protests on an unprecedented scale. The protests took a violent turn last Monday, after police in Chennai started evicting protesters at Marina Beach - the epicentre of this year's pro-jallikattu povement.Inputs from agencies

Source: Times of India January 31, 2017 11:15 UTC