Animal torture
As I was watching the gory details of the visuals of a Hindu ritual in the taluk headquarters town of Indi in Bijapur District in North Karnataka, in which bulls offered as sacrifice to “please” the deity are subjected to a torture of a kind, which has no parallel in the history of any ritual practised by any rerligion in the world.
The ritual begins with smearing of kumkum on the bull, and later the four legs and the mouth of the animal are all tied with strong ropes, and “devotees” forcibly lift it up and make it “stand’, a posture it finds it difficult to do.A deep cut is made with a sharp sickle on its neck.The first flush of blood as it oozes out is collected in both the hands of a person , who offers it to small images of gods and goddesses kept closeby.
Then begins an orgy, an unrestrained indulgence in the worst kind of cruelty, amidst wild scenes of celebration.As the blood oozes out , one after another “devotee”sucks the blood from his mouth.The crowd will not allow it to lie down , even as it is dying, unable to suffer the torture.But the devotees quench their thirst with blood.Finally the animal finds rest in death.As I know it is only the wild dogs, as they hunt their prey in a pack, go on take out flesh from their prey .Even the big cats, tigers or leopards are relatively kind towards their prey.
After one bull rests in peace, an another one is brought and this orgy of violence continues.Seven bulls were sacrificed in this most cruel manner.
Lakhs of people were witness to this barbaric ritual telecast by E TV Kannada On January 22 2008. This comes on the close heels of an another ritual of a differeent kind of torture of animals.While the controversy over jallikattu (bull fight) in some villages in Madurai District of Tamilnadu on Sankranthi Day(Jan 15) was hogging headlines in the national and international media, a far more shocking ritual that happened in Melapura village in Yadgir Taluk of Gulbarga District of Karnataka on the Sankranthi Day came to light.Over 6000 sheep and goats, all young one, were literally thrown from the top of the buildings and hillocks towards the village deity, which was being taken in a procession from the temple to a lake.These offerings were being made by “devotees who had “vowed” to do so.Many of these panick stricken animals got killed or were trampled upon by those in the procession.It was shocking the Governemnt was the indirect participant in this barbaric ritual, for after the event the Governmment in a bid to dispose of the animals auctioned them and the successful bidder “enriched “ the State Exchequer with Rs 2.6 lakhs.The Yadgir Tahasildar sought to playdown the ritual and claimed that only a few anilmals died
I want to ask the District Administration in Bijapur and Gulbarga as to what it was doing when the animals were being subjected to torture and whether it was not a serious dereliction of its duty on its part.They owe an explanation to the public.
a worst kind of torture to animals
A worst kind of torture to animals
As I was watching the gory details of the visuals of a Hindu ritual in the taluk headquarters town of Indi in Bijapur District in North Karnataka, in which bulls offered as sacrifice to “please” the deity are subjected to a torture of a kind, which has no parallel in the history of any ritual practised by any rerligion in the world.
The ritual begins with smearing of kumkum on the bull, and later the four legs and the mouth of the animal are all tied with strong ropes, and “devotees” forcibly lift it up and make it “stand’, a posture it finds it difficult to do.A deep cut is made with a sharp sickle on its neck.The first flush of blood as it oozes out is collected in both the hands of a person , who offers it to small images of gods and goddesses kept closeby.
Then begins an orgy, an unrestrained indulgence in the worst kind of cruelty, amidst wild scenes of celebration.As the blood oozes out , one after another “devotee”sucks the blood from his mouth.The crowd will not allow it to lie down , even as it is dying, unable to suffer the torture.But the devotees quench their thirst with blood.Finally the animal finds rest in death.As I know it is only the wild dogs, as they hunt their prey in a pack, go on take out flesh from their prey .Even the big cats, tigers or leopards are relatively kind towards their prey.
After one bull rests in peace, an another one is brought and this orgy of violence continues.Seven bulls were sacrificed in this most cruel manner.
Lakhs of people were witness to this barbaric ritual telecast by E TV Kannada On January 22 2008. This comes on the close heels of an another ritual of a differeent kind of torture of animals.While the controversy over jallikattu (bull fight) in some villages in Madurai District of Tamilnadu on Sankranthi Day(Jan 15) was hogging headlines in the national and international media, a far more shocking ritual that happened in Melapura village in Yadgir Taluk of Gulbarga District of Karnataka on the Sankranthi Day came to light.Over 6000 sheep and goats, all young one, were literally thrown from the top of the buildings and hillocks towards the village deity, which was being taken in a procession from the temple to a lake.These offerings were being made by “devotees who had “vowed” to do so.Many of these panick stricken animals got killed or were trampled upon by those in the procession.It was shocking the Governemnt was the indirect participant in this barbaric ritual, for after the event the Governmment in a bid to dispose of the animals auctioned them and the successful bidder “enriched “ the State Exchequer with Rs 2.6 lakhs.The Yadgir Tahasildar sought to playdown the ritual and claimed that only a few anilmals died
I want to ask the District Administration in Bijapur and Gulbarga as to what it was doing when the animals were being subjected to torture and whether it was not a serious dereliction of its duty on its part.They owe an explanation to the public.
The ritual begins with smearing of kumkum on the bull, and later the four legs and the mouth of the animal are all tied with strong ropes, and “devotees” forcibly lift it up and make it “stand’, a posture it finds it difficult to do.A deep cut is made with a sharp sickle on its neck.The first flush of blood as it oozes out is collected in both the hands of a person , who offers it to small images of gods and goddesses kept closeby.
Then begins an orgy, an unrestrained indulgence in the worst kind of cruelty, amidst wild scenes of celebration.As the blood oozes out , one after another “devotee”sucks the blood from his mouth.The crowd will not allow it to lie down , even as it is dying, unable to suffer the torture.But the devotees quench their thirst with blood.Finally the animal finds rest in death.As I know it is only the wild dogs, as they hunt their prey in a pack, go on take out flesh from their prey .Even the big cats, tigers or leopards are relatively kind towards their prey.
After one bull rests in peace, an another one is brought and this orgy of violence continues.Seven bulls were sacrificed in this most cruel manner.
Lakhs of people were witness to this barbaric ritual telecast by E TV Kannada On January 22 2008. This comes on the close heels of an another ritual of a differeent kind of torture of animals.While the controversy over jallikattu (bull fight) in some villages in Madurai District of Tamilnadu on Sankranthi Day(Jan 15) was hogging headlines in the national and international media, a far more shocking ritual that happened in Melapura village in Yadgir Taluk of Gulbarga District of Karnataka on the Sankranthi Day came to light.Over 6000 sheep and goats, all young one, were literally thrown from the top of the buildings and hillocks towards the village deity, which was being taken in a procession from the temple to a lake.These offerings were being made by “devotees who had “vowed” to do so.Many of these panick stricken animals got killed or were trampled upon by those in the procession.It was shocking the Governemnt was the indirect participant in this barbaric ritual, for after the event the Governmment in a bid to dispose of the animals auctioned them and the successful bidder “enriched “ the State Exchequer with Rs 2.6 lakhs.The Yadgir Tahasildar sought to playdown the ritual and claimed that only a few anilmals died
I want to ask the District Administration in Bijapur and Gulbarga as to what it was doing when the animals were being subjected to torture and whether it was not a serious dereliction of its duty on its part.They owe an explanation to the public.
a worst kind of torture to animals
A worst kind of torture to animals
As I was watching the gory details of the visuals of a Hindu ritual in the taluk headquarters town of Indi in Bijapur District in North Karnataka, in which bulls offered as sacrifice to “please” the deity are subjected to a torture of a kind, which has no parallel in the history of any ritual practised by any rerligion in the world.
The ritual begins with smearing of kumkum on the bull, and later the four legs and the mouth of the animal are all tied with strong ropes, and “devotees” forcibly lift it up and make it “stand’, a posture it finds it difficult to do.A deep cut is made with a sharp sickle on its neck.The first flush of blood as it oozes out is collected in both the hands of a person , who offers it to small images of gods and goddesses kept closeby.
Then begins an orgy, an unrestrained indulgence in the worst kind of cruelty, amidst wild scenes of celebration.As the blood oozes out , one after another “devotee”sucks the blood from his mouth.The crowd will not allow it to lie down , even as it is dying, unable to suffer the torture.But the devotees quench their thirst with blood.Finally the animal finds rest in death.As I know it is only the wild dogs, as they hunt their prey in a pack, go on take out flesh from their prey .Even the big cats, tigers or leopards are relatively kind towards their prey.
After one bull rests in peace, an another one is brought and this orgy of violence continues.Seven bulls were sacrificed in this most cruel manner.
Lakhs of people were witness to this barbaric ritual telecast by E TV Kannada On January 22 2008. This comes on the close heels of an another ritual of a differeent kind of torture of animals.While the controversy over jallikattu (bull fight) in some villages in Madurai District of Tamilnadu on Sankranthi Day(Jan 15) was hogging headlines in the national and international media, a far more shocking ritual that happened in Melapura village in Yadgir Taluk of Gulbarga District of Karnataka on the Sankranthi Day came to light.Over 6000 sheep and goats, all young one, were literally thrown from the top of the buildings and hillocks towards the village deity, which was being taken in a procession from the temple to a lake.These offerings were being made by “devotees who had “vowed” to do so.Many of these panick stricken animals got killed or were trampled upon by those in the procession.It was shocking the Governemnt was the indirect participant in this barbaric ritual, for after the event the Governmment in a bid to dispose of the animals auctioned them and the successful bidder “enriched “ the State Exchequer with Rs 2.6 lakhs.The Yadgir Tahasildar sought to playdown the ritual and claimed that only a few anilmals died
I want to ask the District Administration in Bijapur and Gulbarga as to what it was doing when the animals were being subjected to torture and whether it was not a serious dereliction of its duty on its part.They owe an explanation to the public.
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