Elaborate planning helped police execute jallikattu events smoothly in Madurai

Successful and safe execution of Jallikattu events in Madurai, Alanganallur, and Palamedu with improved safety measures and crowd management.

Jallikattu events in Madurai city and Alanganallur and Palamedu went off smoothly though the congregation of spectators, bull tamers, bull owners and bulls was large in numbers at all the three places.

Much planning and execution in safe conduct of the event by the police had made them successful events. 

It all started with the Avaniyapuram jallikattu on Pongal day.

Being the first jallikattu of the region, tamers and bull owners were eager to participate in the event. Over 1,100 bulls were registered. “Jallikattu having become an annual event, every year we try to improve the safety measures learning from past experience. With bulls losing patience while waiting in boxes for their turn to get into the vadivasal, this time, we made narrow passages for nearly one km,” a senior police officer said.

This prevented the mad rush of bull owners to jostle among themselves to get their bulls into the queue system on a first-cum-first-served basis.

Bulls were called in batches of 100 animals as per the numerical order of their registration at every one hour. 

With wire mesh put up on the barricades, the bulls could not do any jumping, kicking or goring of bull owners, their assistants of other bulls.