The series is held together by a superbly astute performance by Gagan Dev Riar, who moves from cheerful conman to menacing criminal with remarkable skill, observes Deepa Gahlot.
Telgi said he felt much relieved after the end of the marathon five-hour session.
Abdul Karim Telgi, the prime accused in the multi-crore stamp paper scam, on Friday made "plea bargain" with the special judge, trying CBI cases, even as the court framed additional charges against him and 10 other accused in the case.
All the sentences will run concurrently. On Saturday last, Angadi had convicted Telgi and four others in four transactions involving fake stamp paper sale of about Rs 4.90 lakh to a private firm Deccan Structural System during 1999.
He is being grilled at Central Prison on the outskirts of Bangalore.
The development came as a key operative of Telgi, Raez Quadri, was arrested in Hyderabad and remanded to police custody till January 8.
He was in news after the then DIG (Prisons) D Roopa recently alleged that Telgi was among several prisoners who received special treatment in the jail.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed another chargesheet against Abdul Karim Telgi, prime accused in the fake stamps racket, and four others for making and selling counterfeit government stamps.
Monday's five-hour session was followed by one on Tuesday.
Court allows Telgi to confess on February 4 before magistrate
Telgi alleged that he is being put to untold misery, tortured and poisoned slowly to death.
A Special MCOCA court said Telgi and three of his kin be taken to Belgaum under tight security, but they should not be allowed to stay overnight after the funeral.
Telgi's counsel, M T Nanaiah, said Telgi will cooperate with the SIT.
The CBI produced him before Special Judge S M Shembole in Pune amidst unprecedented security.
Vijay Desai had been absconding for nearly one-and-a-half years, SIT sources said, adding that he was being grilled.
'The likelihood he may get out of the legal process has driven them to eliminate him,' alleges Telgi lawyer M T Nanaiah.
The Karnataka police have arrested M B Ali Iliyas Burhan, believed to the main agent of Abdul Kareem Telgi, the man behind the multi-crore fake stamp paper racket, the Stamp Paper Investigation Team said on Friday.
The court will decide on framing charges against Telgi and his two associates Ramratan Soni and Sanjay Gaikwad for their alleged complicity in the fake currency racket registered by M R A Marg police station in 1995.
A Mumbai court on Monday convicted and sentenced Abdul Karim Telgi, accused of running a fake stamp paper racket running into crore of rupees, to imprisonment in nine cases after he had pleaded guilty to all of them.
Be it the weather or the masala dosas or the familial proximity, Telgi loves being in Bengaluru. The prime accused in the multi-crore fake stamp paper racket is back in Bengaluru from Yerwada prison in Pune, where he was taken three years ago. It was accused then that he was treated like a VIP in the city jail.
Telgi appeared before the court through video conferencing while the other accused appeared in person.
The prime accused in the multi-crore fake stamp-paper case Abdul Karim Telgi on Friday sought protection for his daughter from four co-accused held with him in jail, who, he claimed, may kidnap her.
Telgi alleges forceful discharge from hospital
The accused informed the court that they do not wish to oppose the framing of charges in the case.
The accused has maintained since the beginning that he is neither the kingpin nor the main conspirator. During the arguments regarding consideration of charge, "some of the co-accused have also reiterated this," the lawyers said.
Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday dismissed reports about his links with multi-crore stamp paper scam accused Abdul Karim Telgi saying the utternaces of a criminal could not be trusted.
The court deferred the matter after the accused sought time to engage a lawyer.
The court asked Bangalore's central jail authorities to produce him on March 31 in connection with two cases regarding the scam.
Telgi was quoted as saying that he would disclose the names of "big sharks" in the scandal.
Tabrez Telgi was again arrested on Tuesday in connection with a fake stamp paper scam in suburban Mulund.
The main accused in the multi-crore fake stamp paper racket, Abdul Karim Telgi, has denied he wrote about the involvement of 19 ministers in the scam in any diary.
Nanaiah claims to possess a medical certificate issued by doctors of NIMHANS, Bangalore.
Police have found evidence about the existence of a printing press in Patna that was run by Telgi and his associates.
A sessions court in Mumbai sentenced fake stamp paper scam kingpin Abdul Karim Telgi to seven years rigorous imprisonment on Friday for the murder of his driver Christopher Bhate. The prosecution alleged that Telgi, along with four of his associates, killed Bale because the latter had some information about the confidential business dealings of Telgi's stamp paper scam.
A CBI court in Bangalore has sentenced Abdul Karim Telgi and two associates to five years' rigorous imprisonment for floating three fictitious firms trading in stamp paper and duping the Karnataka government, a PSU and four private firms of several lakh rupees.
The Bombay high court on Tuesday granted bail to Abdul Karim Telgi, alleged kingpin of the multi-crore fake stamp paper scam, in a 2003 case.
Telgi now has sought for home food on the ground that he is sick and is infected with HIV. Telgi states in an application that the food being provided in the central jail at Bengaluru is not suitable for him and hence home food be provided.
Reserve price of the properties that came under the hammer on Wednesday ran into crores of rupees. The IT department has claimed tax arrears of Rs 11.85 crore from Telgi.
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