Anthony's motion to remove the possibility of the death penalty denied

Court records have shown that the judge in Casey Anthony's Florida murder trial Tuesday denied Anthony's motion to remove the possibility of the death penalty.

The Orlando Sentinel has reported that Orange County Chief Judge Belvin Perry Jr. denied the defense team's motion to remove the death sentence based on gender bias.

Anthony is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Caylee Marie, her daughter. Anthony was indicted by a grand jury in October 2008, three months before Caylee's remains were discovered near the family home.

The defense, adding that the state often does not seek the death penalty against men accused of killing children, said, "Societal biases against women provide the state with a way of deflecting attention away from the insufficiency of the evidence in Miss Anthony's case."

Elizabeth Rapaport, a University of New Mexico law professor who testified about her research on gender and the death penalty, said that white middle-class mothers get more intensive media coverage compared with defendants in other cases. The media often concentrates on other issues, such as a woman's clothing or whether she has a tattoo or goes to see male strippers, none of which has anything to do with the criminal case.

Penalty on the manufacturers of adulterated food items

The new law of anti adulteration has made food adulteration a punishable offence. The victim can get a life imprisonment for any breach of the Act. Apart from that, the manufacturers may face fine up to Rs 10 Lakhs. This has been informed by the Union Health & Family Welfare Minister Gulam Nabi Azad.

During the Rajya Sabha question hour, he informed that the Act of Food Safety and Standards passed by the Parliament in 2006 will get into power in coming 3-4 months.

Municipality of provisions has integrated several laws for the food and health related issues in the country. He has also informed that from the Section 101 in the Food Safety and Standards Act, till now 43 have been apprized and the rest are on process. The report of the entire issue will be notified soon.

Attacking doctors in Maharashtra is a non-bailable offence

In Maharashtra, attacking any doctors or medicare service personnels, including all medical and paramedical staffs of all hospitals, will now be considered as a non-bailable offence resulting imprisonment for three years and a fine of Rs. 50,000.

The new rule came into existence after the Maharashtra Medicare Service Persons and Medicare Service Institution (Prevention of Violence and Damage or Loss to Property) Act, 2010 was passed by the Maharashtra assembly on Friday. This will take care of doctors from any kind of violence from the patient or his family members.

The bill listed by Minister of State for Law and Justice Bhaskar Jadhav stated that any law breaker, who commits or attempts to commit or encourages any act of violence, would fall under the purview of this act. Jadhav further added that there was a need to check such incidents and the government took this decision in observance of increased attacks on doctors by patients and their relatives.

Under another provision of this act, in occurrence of any such episode with damage to any property, the offender would be liable to pay compensation of double the amount of damages or losses caused to the property or any other amount as decided by the court.