January 01, 2025 1:29 am
The scam, which was uncovered in 2001, was originally investigated by Gandhinagar Zone of CID Crime of Gujarat Police, before it was transferred to the CBI.
September 02, 2023 9:14 am
Scam 2003 review: Gagan Dev Riar as Telgi is terrific, his body language determinedly ordinary—a face like millions in the crowd, bush-shirt bulging over a protruding stomach-- which hides a razor-sharp mind always working on how to get ahead.
September 01, 2023 4:28 pm
In 2005, when the Tax Department first raised a demand of Rs 120 crore against Telgi, it was one of the highest tax demands against an individual. Two years later, he was convicted of the scam and awarded 30 years of imprisonment and a fine of Rs 202 crore.
December 03, 2022 12:55 am
While the stamp paper case against Abdul Karim Telgi was abated after he died, the FIR against Shabbir Shaikh was registered in 2010.
August 12, 2022 9:05 am
The court found Alimuthu Durairaj Ravichandar guilty under charges of criminal conspiracy and relevant provisions of the Essential Commodities Act.
March 04, 2021 5:12 pm
As Hansal Mehta and SonyLiv announce that the follow-up to 1992 Scam: The Harshad Mehta Story will be Scam 2003: The Curious Case of Abdul Karim Telgi, here's a primer who was the kingpin of the fake stamp paper scam.
December 21, 2018 8:09 pm
The Telgi scam spurred the state to secure and modernise government documents
October 27, 2017 1:24 pm
Abdul Karim Telgi, was arrested in 2001 by the Bengaluru police for running a nationwide fake stamp paper racket from the early 1990s to divert crores worth of revenue of the state exchequer from sales of stamp paper.
October 27, 2017 4:37 am
Subsequent investigation in the case revealed that Abdul Karim Telgi, who was later shifted to Yeravada jail in Pune for some time, was the kingpin of a multi-crore fake stamp paper scam spread over several states.
October 27, 2017 1:52 pm
While Telgi in his tax returns declared an income of a few lakh each year between 1996 and 2003, a tax tribunal in Bengaluru said in 2010 that he had accumulated “huge unaccounted sum from the racket of counterfeit stamp papers”.






