Jallikattu players demand compensation for deceased bull tamer

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Members of  Tamil Nadu Jallikattu Welfare Association staging a objection  successful  Madurai connected  Monday.

Members of Tamil Nadu Jallikattu Welfare Association staging a objection successful Madurai connected Monday. | Photo Credit: R. ASHOK

 Jallikattu players and relatives of a bull tamer who was killed in Natham Pugayilaipatti jallikattu on February 11, 2026, staged a protest here connected Monday demanding suitable compensation for the household who mislaid their kin during the sport.  

The subordinate Neethi alias Balaguru, a autochthonal of Alanganallur, participated in the jallikattu event, which was conducted successful the colony adjacent Natham, said Mudakathan Mani of Tamil Nadu Jallikattu Welfare Association.  

He attributed the decease of the younker to the unavailability of medical services during the event.  

Since the reason for decease was besides owed to aesculapian negligence, the territory medication should besides guarantee the family received at slightest ₹10 lakh arsenic compensation from the State government, helium demanded. 

“Balaguru’s woman who is six months large present has go a widow astatine such a young age. Though the nonaccomplishment cannot beryllium compensated, astatine slightest a partial alleviation to the household would alteration them to prolong their lives and instrumentality attraction of the children,” helium noted.

Published - February 16, 2026 08:07 p.m. IST

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