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CHENNAI Aug. 28. In another initiative pleasing to animal rights activists, the Tamil Nadu Government today banned animal and bird sacrifice in temples throughout the State. This is the second time in three days the Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, has intervened in the interest of animals. On Tuesday, she ordered that temple elephants be given a one-month holiday every year. The Chief Minister has now written to District Collectors, Superintendents of Police and range Deputy Inspectors-General, asking them to prevent the killing of animals in the name of propitiating gods. Stringent action should be taken against violators, she told them. In her letter to the district authorities, she pointed out that the Tamil Nadu Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1950, and its subsequent amendment, banned the killing of animals and birds in temples and on their premises.

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