The Supreme Court has said NO to Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu this year.

The court heard a clutch of appeals challenging the Centre's notification to allow the bull taming sport Jallikattu, during the festival of Pongal in Tamil Nadu.

Senior lawyers Sidharth Luthra and Anand Grover had mentioned the matter before Chief Justice T S Thakur for an urgent hearing, pointing out that the decision to lift the ban has been taken days before traditional harvest festival Pongal is set to begin.

This morning Justice R Banumathi recused herself from hearing the case in the Supreme Court.

Petitions seeking stay/quashing of batch of petitions have been shifted for hearing to a Bench led by Justice Dipak Misra.

Justice R. Banumathi had first banned jallikattu during her tenure as Judge of the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court.