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In a bid to curb the practice of adulteration of food and give more teeth to agencies, the Maharashtra government will amend the anti-adulteration law sections to prescribe life imprisonment for the violators, state FDA Minister Girish Bapat said here Wednesday. The minister said President Ramnath Kovind has recently given his assent to amendments made by other states to their respective laws prescribing life term for the violators. "The Maharashtra government will bring amendments to sections 272 to 276 of the Prevention of Food Adulteration (Maharashtra Amendment) Act, 1969 to provide life imprisonment for the accused," he told reporters. The minister said the state government intends to strengthen the Act on the lines of the Maharashtra Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Slumlords, Bootleggers, Drug-Offenders and Dangerous Persons Act, 1981. Commenting upon the recent Supreme Court verdict on the applicability of section 328 (Causing hurt by means of poison, etc., with intent to commit an offence) of the IPC for violators of Gutkha ban, he said the state government had moved the apex court challenging the high court judgement in the matter. |
