Telgi said he felt much relieved after the end of the marathon five-hour session.
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.
Tentatively titled Scam 2003: The Curious Case of Abdul Karim Telgi, the show will be adapted from the book Reporter Ki Diary, authored by Sanjay Singh, who is credited with breaking the story back in time.
'The challenging part was when I did not have a penny in my pocket and I was doing theatre.' 'I had to sometimes travel without a train ticket to go for rehearsals.' 'Those times were really hard on my family and me.' 'But my parents would say, "Never give up. Just keep following your dreams. Do what you dream about but when you do that, do that with great honesty and great commitment".'
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.
Special Judge B M Sardeshpande asked the defence and prosecution counsels to ensure time on January 11, 2006 when charges would be framed against the accused.
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Special Sessions judge Chandrashekhar Patil's 923-page order convicted Telgi and 17 others. Two other high profile accused in the case, Jayasimha and Nanjappa, jail superintendents who were charged for taking favours from Telgi were however acquitted by the court. In all there were 36 accused in this case of which 18 were convicted.
A special Central Bureau of Investigation court on Wednesday convicted Abdul Karim Telgi and 11 others in one of the fake stamp paper scam-related cases but rejected an application seeking to make former Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh an accused.
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.
Also known as truth serum, it has been used for solving crucial cases in the past.
Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) T S Kashyap dismissed the appeal of stamp scam kingpin Telgi, who is a HIV/AIDS patient and currently lodged at a Bengaluru jail, challenging the trial court judgment sentencing him to seven-year in jail and imposing Rs 25 lakh in fine.
A special court in Pune on Monday sentenced kingpin in the multi-crore fake stamp paper scam Abdul Karim Telgi to 10 years imprisonment in one of the many cases filed against him.
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.
Sources say that there has been a lot of difference between the fake currency that used to be printed a year ago and what is available now, following the leak of the design. Investigations have revealed that the design may have been compromised through a D-company link, which is completely in charge of circulating fake currency in India.
Rejecting CBI's request to close the case against Telgi and three others, Additional Sessions Judge Dinesh Dayal said: "It appears that CBI had proceeded to file the closure report merely because the person who should have been an accused refused that he had accepted the money." No investigation has been made to establish whether money was received by him (Jeyaseelan - as part of his alleged collusion with the accused)," the court said.
Prime accused in the multi-crore fake stamp paper case Abdul Karim Telgi and two of his accomplices were sentenced to 10 years rigorous imprisonment by the special Central Bureau of Investigation court in Bhopal. The judge found Telgi, Shabbir Ahmed Sheikh and Sohail Khan guilty under section of 120-B of Indian Penal Code pertaining to criminal conspiracy and IPC section 255 dealing with counterfeiting of government stamp papers and imposed fine of Rs five lakh on each.
Abdul Karim Telgi, the main accused in the fake judicial stamp paper case, has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment each in two separate cases by a local court in Churu, Rajasthan.Chief Judicial Magistrate Urmila Verma on Thursday sentenced Telgi to seven years imprisonment in the multi-crore stamp paper case and also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000. Telgi was accused of being the mastermind behind a multi-crore stamp paper case in 1995.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday raided the regional passport offices in Mumbai and Bangalore in connection with a fresh forged passports case registered against the multi-crore fake stamp paper accused, Abdul Karim Telgi.
DIG A P Muhammad Ali, Assistant Commissioner of Police Shankar and LIC's administrative official Ramaswamy were among those arrested.
Judge Virupaksha Vishwanath Angadi, pronouncing the judgment, said the charges framed against the accused had been proved.
A Delhi court on Tuesday framed charges against multi-crore scam kingpin Abdul Karim Telgi and over 20 of his alleged associates for selling fake stamps in the Capital, but absolved them of the stricter offence of printing the counterfeits.
A special court on Wednesday sentenced prime accused Abdul Karim Telgi to 10 years imprisonment and 21 other associates to seven years in one of the cases relating to the multi-crore fake stamp paper scam.
Pawar stated that there was no need to take any congnizance of what a criminal has said.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Among those chargesheeted were former Mumbai police commissioner R S Sharma and deputy commissioner Pradeep Sawant.
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.
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.
Telgi has said in a letter read out by his lawyers that he is disturbed by the reports.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday said all the leads emerging from narco-analysis test of fake stamp paper kingpin Abdul Karim Telgi were pursued and a chargesheet was filed only after further corroboratory evidence.
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.
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