Cigarette Packets to Carry Skull-and-bones Sign
...te stringent penalty, including up to two years in jail and a fine of up to Rs.5,000 in the case of first ...06. For the second or subsequent conviction, the jail term may extend to five years and fine up to Rs.10,000, it said. Even selling or distributing ciga...First Gay Man Prosecuted On the Charges of Infecting His Lover with HIV
...be sentence in his absence. He is facing a lengthy jail sentence for inflicting bodily harm to his lover. James has admitted infecting his former partner with AIDS. Mark Gadsden, for the prosecution, said that James did not tell his former partner that he was previously diagnosed with HIV. Detective Co...Boy Punished for being HIV positive
...eerut Medical College.The boy had been in juvenile jail in Meerut since April after committing a robbery. ... was HIV positive. He was brought in from juvenile jail only when his condition was very critical. The child had been kept in a ward with other highly inf...High Court Orders Taking Shahabuddin to AIIMS in Police Custody
...l (PMCH) which examined the MP in Siwan divisional jail on July 20. The fourth-term RJD MP facing nearly three dozen criminal cases, including those of kidnapping and murder, had filed a petition in the Patna High Court seeking its direction to the state government to send him outside the state for speci...Indian Australian Doctor Charged for Performing Illegal Abortion
... questions. The doctor now faces a maximum 10-year jail term. Sood, 56, is the first doctor in NSW since 1971 to be tried over an abortion case. She was charged with giving a 20-year-old woman, who was about 23 weeks pregnant, an abortion drug at her clinic in Fairfeld, southwest of Sydney, in May 2002...New Guidelines To Rehabilitate Drug Offenders
...rime rate also are apparent with implementation of jail and prison-based rehabilitation programs. The NIDA/NIH guide utilizing the research of Staton-Tindall and Leukefeld is part of the standard set of government recommendations for treating drug abusers in the criminal justice system and to better und...Indian Doctor in Britain Jailed for Molesting Patients
... a 63-year-old doctor of Indian origin a four-year jail sentence for molesting, kissing and flirting with women patients over a 13-year //period between September 1991 and December 2004. Benjamin Deodhar, the India-born doctor who qualified in India, moved to Britain in 1973. He had been running the prac...Indian Australian Doctor not to Contest the Allegations
... this week, where she might get a possible maximum jail term of 10 years. Sood was charged with manslaughter in November 2005 for allegedly failing to follow the procedures that make abortion legal in the state of NSW. However, Sood has been acquitted on manslaughter charges related to a dead baby. ...Libyan Lawyers For The HIV-positive Children Seek 15million Dinars As Compensation
...opean Union in their statement that the medics, in jail in Libya since 1999, are innocent. It was reported that Tripoli has informally suggested in meetings with diplomats and charity officials in January that the nurses could go free if Bulgaria pays compensation to the children and their families, who...Costliest Lawsuit for Chinese Hospital
...spital staff. They have been sentenced to various jail terms....Health Care Suffers at Los Angeles Jails: Report
... inmates since 1999 in the nation's largest county jail system came after treatment errors and other break...igation by the Los Angeles Times found that the LA jail system lacks enough doctors, nurses and other medical workers, resulting in long delays in treatment...Medical Care Lacking In LA Jail
An investigation into the jail infrastructure and health facilities has revealed ...oper medical care. It has been reported that the jail infrastructure lacks adequate doctors, nurses and other medical workers which leads to delay in trea...Tihar Jail Gets De-Addiction Centre
...,000 inmates. The centre, which is present in the jail hospital premises, was built at a cost of Rs.17 mi...he biggest centre of its kind to be started in any jail in the country for treatment, post-treatment care and counseling of prisoners addicted to drugs - of...Now Prisoners To Promote Awareness On Aids
...he message of HIV AIDS both inside and outside the jail was through the talented prisoners," said PSU director S.K. Harikumar. Selection of these prisoners was based on their eligibility to get parole and women prisoners were not selected because of security reasons. Source-IANS...Ten Percent of Tihar Jail Inmates are Drug Addicts
...ier we had a number of de-addiction centres in our jail premises and now we have constructed a 120 bedded integrated dug de addiction centre in the jail hospital premises." "In 2006, 5,180 prisoners took the de-addiction treatment," he said. Speakin...Six Medicos in Libyan HIV Case Plead Not Guilty
...e testimonies. The six medicos were sentenced to jail in 1999 when they were accused of starting an HIV epidemic in a hospital in Benghazi in Libya. But according to scientists, the infections have begun much before the arrival of these medicos. But Libya was defiant and said that they would sort this i...... health screening camps are being organised by the jail administration to rule out any possibility of spre...ction among other inmates. "All prisoners in the jail are medically screened and strict vigilance is being kept on the HIV-infected people," the minister ...Donate Kidney And Get Released From Jail Soon
...hich will enable the early release of inmates from jail if they donate their kidneys//. If this bill is pa...n the prisoners could bring down their stay in the jail by as many as 180 days. Democratic Senator Ralph Anderson who is recommending this legislation opi...French 'euthanasia Doctor' Avoids Jail
... French court has handed down a one-year suspended jail sentence to a doctor who prescribed a fatal overdose of potassium chloride to a terminally ill cancer patient.// Doctor Laurence Tramois, 35, and nurse Chantal Chanel, 40, had been prosecuted for poisoning Paulette Druais, a 65-year-old woman in 20......r. He was kept for 10 months at the Raipur central jail and released on bail in May 2006. Source-IANS...