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CORRESPONDENT | Sat, 22 Jul 2017-, DNA
The Bombay High Court on Friday
disposed off a public interest litigation (PIL), which sought to reverse a
previous order banning the capture and exhibition of snakes on Nag Panchami.
The festival will be celebrated next week.
A division bench of Chief Justice
Manjulla Chellur and Justice NM Jamdar, while disposing off the petition filed
by Pradeep Joshi, said that the court had already decided on the issue. They
added that the order can be reviewed, provided some new ground is raised in the
petition filed.
The PIL claimed that the high
court, in its earlier order, had not properly appreciated the document in
Gazetteer of District Sangli, published by the government. The petition also
states that the festival is being celebrated over several years and thus it is
part of the tradition.
The court had ordered the ban
based on a petition filed by Ajit Patil, an animal activist from Sangli
district, on July 15, 2014. Citing references to the Wildlife Protection Act of
1972, the court rejected Battis Shirala's opposition to the ban, a town in
Sangli where the festival is popular.
Before the one day festival,
snake groups and volunteers capture snakes from nearby forests that are stored
and later displayed. As per belief, the cobra snake has a special significance
in Hindu mythology.
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