The accused faced trial for 20 years," additional CJM N N Pathar said. Of the 16 named, prime accused Abdul Karim Telgi and eight others confessed to their crime and were convicted in 2009.

A native of Belgaum in Karnataka, Abdul Karim Telgi, is suspected to be the kingpin of the racket, which involved printing and circulating duplicate stamps and stamp papers. Senior policemen and ...

Gagan Dev Riar winning the Filmfare OTT award for his self-effacing performance as Abdul Karim Telgi’s Scam 2003 is not the kind of in-your-face act that gets noticed. That he did get noticed ...

Hansal Mehta and Jai Mehta co-directed the web series. The second instalment, Scam 2003: The Telgi Story, was about the story of Abdul Karim Telgi's counterfeiting of stamp paper in the early 2000s.

Next was Scam 2003: The Telgi Story, about stamp paper counterfeiter Abdul Karim Telgi. This time the show’s directorial duties were taken up by Tushar Hiranandani and Hansal served as producer.

Starring Gagan Dev Riar in the lead role, it revisits the true story of how Abdul Karim Telgi counterfeited stamp paper amounting to Rs 30,000 crore in the early 2000s. The series is inspired from ...

Recalling his tenure as home minister of Karnataka, Kharge mentioned several high-profile cases such as the notorious sandalwood smuggler Veerappan, stamp paper scam mastermind Abdul Karim Telgi ...

It is based on the counterfeiting of stamped paperby Abdul Karim Telgi in the early 2000s. It stars Gagan Dev Riar as the protagonist. Allu Arjun-starrer Pushpa 2 has earned over ₹1,500 crore in ...