‘Telgi possessed mobile in custody’

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the fake stamp paper scam has alleged that prime accused Abdul Karim Telgi used mobile phones t...

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the fake stamp paper scam has alleged that prime accused Abdul Karim Telgi used mobile phones to contact his aides when he was in the custody of the Mumbai crime branch.

Besides facilitating his stay in luxury hotels and his Colaba home, Mumbai Police allowed Telgi to keep the cell phone in custody and use it to strike several deals, the SIT alleged in the chargesheet filed in a Pune special court on December 29.

Billing records, seized by SIT and scrutinised later, revealed that he used mobile number 98216-88182 when he was in custody from November 28, 2002 to January 21, 2003.

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SIT has alleged that Telgi was in touch with another arrested accused Manoj Mehta (from January 8, 2003 to January 11, 2003), with Abdul Rashid Kulkarni (on January 11 and 12, 2003) and legislator Anil Umrao Gote and others.

On January 11, 2003, when SIT was searching Telgi’s house in Colaba, one Feroz Khan arrived with Rs 19,000. Khan told SIT that Telgi had asked him to deliver the money to his wife.

The SIT has alleged that apart from controlling his fake stamps business from the lock-up on mobile, Telgi also asked estate agent Brijbhan Singh to find buyers for his flats at Mathuradas Estate, and Sunny House, both in Colaba.

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