Dangerous trend

In most of these cases the court stepped in when the govt was reluctant to stop a social malpractice

With reference to M J Antony’s column, “New clouds on the judicial horizon” (January 25), recent cases of defiance of court verdicts with the connivance of the executive is an incommodious portend. 

In most of these cases the court stepped in when the government was reluctant to stop a social malpractice because of its popular appeal. No civilised culture promotes entertainment at the cost of torture to animals and injury to its practitioners; any tradition that does so is not worth emulating. 

When the Supreme Court banned Jallikattu, the Centre and the Tamil Nadu government came together to thwart the ruling after