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Cockfights

  • January 16, 2022
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Cockfights

Subject – Governance

Context – Despite ban, cockfights organised in A.P

Concept –

  • A cockfight is a blood sport, held in a ring called a cockpit. The history of raising fowl for fighting goes back 6,000 years.
  • Cockfighting in India primarily takes place in January, coinciding with Makar Sankranti.
  • The practice is widespread in coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh, including Krishna, Guntur, East Godavari and West Godavari districts, despite being illegal in India.
  • Fights between birds such as junglefowls and roosters are said to have been arranged in ancient India as a mode of entertainment. It is recorded that the outcome of the Battle of Palnadu (1178–1182) was decided by a rooster fight, following which cockfighting gained foothold in Andhra Pradesh.
  • In the present day, cockfighting takes place in Andhra Pradesh and other parts of India such as Telangana, Karnataka, and Odisha.
  • Roosters are specially bred for cockfights, with knives and blades tied to their legs. The fight typically results in the death of one of the birds.
  • Cockfighting has been illegal in India since the enactment of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act in 1960.
    • Subsequent judgements by the Supreme Court of India in 2015, and the Hyderabad High Court in 2016, upheld the ban.
    • In January 2018, the Supreme Court allowed the sport to be held in a traditional way, without the use of knives and blades and without gambling or betting.
  • Despite the ban, cockfighting is still popular in Andhra Pradesh.
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