The in-charge of the Safdarjung Hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU) where the Dec 16 gang-rape victim underwent treatment for 10 days, Monday told the court trying the case that the injuries inflicted by the six accused on her led to her death.

The nature of injuries the victim had “can cause death in natural course”, the doctor, deposing as a prosecution witness in the Dec 16 gang rape case here, told the fast track court of Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna.

The police claimed to have busted a fake currency racket with the arrest of a liquor salesman and two others, who allegedly used to circulate fake notes by passing it to the customers.

Mukesh Jaiswal was arrested from Govind Nagar yesterday and based on his inputs, two of his accomplices were nabbed by police, SSP Yashaswi Yadav said.

An advanced scanner-printer machine along with fake notes of the face value of Rs 42,410 were seized from them, he said.

Mukesh was arrested after two of his customers alleged they were handed fake notes at the liquor store.

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The husband of a school warden was today arrested on the charge of “attempted sexual assault” on a girl student in Chatra district, the police said here.

“Soon after an FIR was lodged against Manoj Kumar, the husband of warden Renu Devi, he was arrested in Chatra,” Superintendent of Police Anup Kumar Birtheray said.

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Nine people, including six government officials, were arrested in connection with a case of Staff Selection Commission examination paper leak, police said today.

Of the nine arrested who were allegedly helping candidates in Combined Graduate Level Tier-I Examination-2013, one is a lower division clerk, two policemen and another is a a sales tax inspector who is awaiting his civil service results.

Amidst growing demands for his resignation, Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar Monday said he won’t step down over growing crimes against women in the capital, stating that his exit won’t help remedy the situation.

“If my resigning will prevent such depravity in the society, then I am prepared to resign a thousand times. But that is not going to address this problem,” he told the media persons at a press conference here Monday.

Neeraj Kumar said the factors responsible for the rising crimes against women in the city were those of mental depravity, psychopathy and mental sickness.

As many as 463 rape cases have been registered at various police stations in Delhi in the first four and a half months of 2013, indicating an increase of 158 percent over the same period last year, Delhi Police said Monday.

There has been at least a 600 percent rise in molestation cases while 783.67 percent more harassment cases have been noted in the same period, said an officer.

Last year, as many as 179 rapes, 139 molestations and 49 cases of harassment were registered till April 15.