The Supreme Court today countered Tamil Nadu's argument on jallikattu, a bull taming sport, that it is an "age-old tradition" practised far and wide in the State. The court has said, child marriage was also once an "age-old tradition" before being declared a crime.<br/><br/> The Bench of Justices Dipak Misra and Rohinton F. Nariman said, it would consider the plea for a larger Bench after hearing preliminary arguments on constitutionality of the January notification. The court said it was a "constitutional and statutory issue" and that it would examine whether such a sport was permissible in law or not. The case has been adjourned to August 23.<br/><br/>Senior advocate Shekhar Naphade for Tamil Nadu pushed for a larger Bench to hear its plea for lifting an apex court stay on a January 7, 2016 notification, which allowed the exhibition and use of bulls for Jallikattu. Supreme Court had banned the bull fight or use it in a judgment in 2014. The Apex court is hearing petitions by animal rights activists against the Centre's decision January this year to allow the traditional Tamil Nadu bull fight.