madurai barely four days after the jallikattu season began in tamil nadu with the event at avaniapuram in madurai animal rights activists have cried foul over alleged cruelty to bulls people for ethical treatment of animals peta has lodged 22 complaints over alleged cruelty to the bulls at avaniapuram palamedu and alanganallur in avaniapuram and palamedu we have lodged eight complaints each and in alanganallur six firs have been lodged based on the complaints said valliayate a peta member most number of violations was found during the jallikattu at salem on friday the rights activists have lodged 21 complaints in salem on the violations while two complaints have been lodged in dindigul taking the total number of complaints registered across the state to 45 the complaints were lodged by the animal welfare board of india representatives who monitored photographed and videographed the events most of the complaints pertained to twisting of the tails of bulls biting of the tails and poking the animals with sharp instruments tail is a sensitive part and twisting it would be very painful said valliayate who is also a veterinarian supreme court guidelines and the tamil nadu governments rules have not prevented the violations in fact jallikattu cannot be held without harassing the bulls because cruelty is inherent in the event valliayate said he alleged that the violations and cruelty to bulls were committed right in front of the revenue and police officials independent observers said the bulls were made to wait from early morning till afternoon without providing them food or water at the jallikattu venue a large number of men pounced on the scared bulls as they were forced through the vaadi vaasal into the arena said j rajendran an animal rights activist jallikattu is nothing but cruelty to animals and a danger to humans said peta campaign adviser bhuvaneshwari gupta in a statement its high time to relegate this cruel bloody spectacle to the history books she said however jallikattu organisers brushed aside the charges they were in fact jubilant that there were no casualties reported during the events this year in the name of animal rights few people are bent upon bringing disrepute to the event by levelling these kinds of allegations all we request the government is to take action on specific cases of violations rather than painting the entire event with the same brush is not fair said t ondiraj veera vilayattu jallikattu pathukappu kuzhu