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It is illegal to sell stamp papers and court fee stamps above the value printed on it but vendors charge 2 extra. Court fee stamps are affixed on stamp paper used to file litigation in courts.
A city court today convicted Abdul Karim Telgi and four others in a fake stamp paper scam of Rs.257,000. Telgi has been convicted in two more cases pertaining to the nation-wide racket.
The judgment was based on an appeal filed by a licensed stamp vendor, Aman Bhatia, who was convicted by a trial court under the anti-corruption law for demanding ₹2 extra for a ₹10 stamp paper ...
The High Court of Karnataka on Wednesday upheld the order of a special court in acquitting Rehan Baig, brother of Minister R. Roshan Baig, from the charge of assisting Abdul Karim Telgi, kingpin ...
In the stamp paper scam between 1993 and 2002, Telgi cultivated officers in the government security press in Nashik to print counterfeit stamp papers, purchased machinery at government auctions ...