A December 16 gang-rape accused has been "poisoned" in Tihar Jail and is critically ill, his lawyer told a special court on Wednesday.

It will be a battle to avoid the wooden spoon when laggards Pune Warriors and Delhi Daredevils take field for one last time in the 2013 season of the Pepsi Indian Premier League on Sunday.

Delhi Police have sent investigators to four cities in the country to trace the money trail in IPL spot-fixing case. According to sources, teams have been sent to Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Mumbai and Hyderabad in this connection.

A Sessions Court on Friday awarded capital punishment to a person convicted in a case of kidnapping, rape and murder of a minor girl last year. Mohammad Mustafa (45) kidnapped a 16-year old girl and later raped and killed her on September 29 last year, prosecution said.

The Supreme Court on Friday said that CD of the interview of the December 16, 2012 Delhi gang-rape victim's male friend to a news channel could not be produced as evidence in the trial of the case.

Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Friday congratulated Delhi Police for busting the spot-fixing network in Indian Premier League and conducting investigation following which three cricketers and 11 bookies have been arrested.

With the trial in the Delhi gang-rape case "almost 90 percent complete", the Court verdict is expected to come by the end of May, Delhi Police commissioner Neeraj Kumar said.

A 13-year-old victim of gang-rape, who was recuperating in hospital after consuming an overdose of sleeping pills on April 20, yet again tried to commit suicide late on Sunday night at the hospital, her relatives said.

A Chief Medical Officer of a government hospital in national capital has been arrested for allegedly raping a 21-year old female patient by taking her into a clinic. The CMO took the girl on the pretext of conducting an ultrasound scanning, the police said on Wednesday.

The male companion of December 16 gang-rape victim has written a letter to Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde seeking a government job. It is to be noted that the Centre has given a flat to the victim’s family and government job to her brother as ex-gratia.