Though Vijayan, 25, was gored to death on Friday at Palamedu in Madurai, participants turned up in large numbers for the event on Saturday.

Blue Cross of India, along with Animal Welfare Board of India, had approached the court seeking a ban on jallikattu. “How can any person show valour by torturing oneself and others?” its secretary, Sarswathi Haksan, said.

The Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), too called for a ban on such a “barbaric” sport. “I feel sorry for such acts of heroism,” SPCA secretary S Natana Rajan said.

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