A YouTuber from the Salem region of Tamil Nadu was the target of a lawsuit after he posted a video of his Jallikattu bull being fed by a live rooster. The accused, Ragu, uploaded the video from Chinnappampatti in December 2023. It depicts three guys restraining a bull and forcing it to chomp on a rooster.
People for Cattle in India, an NGO located in Chennai, was founded by Arun Prasanna, who notified the authorities about the video. Bulls are herbivores, and feeding them raw meat might expose them to unidentified illnesses, according to a letter Prasanna submitted to the Inspector of the Tharamangalam Police on Tuesday.
“The tremendous fear and pain the rooster would have endured while being roughly handled, and forced between a bull’s teeth while being slowly chewed to death alive is difficult to imagine,” Prasanna stated.
As the bull was made to chew on bones and feathers, drink blood, and swallow flesh—things for which he is wholly unfit biologically, it is also impossible to imagine the confusion and suffering the animal would have experienced, Prasanna continued.
He requested that the individuals in question be charged with violating the Indian Penal Code and the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, specifically for offending religious sensibility.
Three males are the subject of a case against which Tharamangalam Police have opened an inquiry. Traditionally practiced in Tamil Nadu during the Pongal harvest festival in the second week of January, jallikattu is a popular sport that involves taming bulls.
