A counterfeit stamp paper racket exposed in 2000-2001. Telgi was convicted in many cases from 2006 and died in custody in 2017.
Telgi, a former Gulf worker, was arrested for cheating. He allegedly learnt forgery in jail.
Investigators said he bought junked machinery from the Nashik security press.
The supply chain investigators described.
Two men carrying fake stamp papers were arrested. Raids found over Rs 9 crore of fakes.
Police, tipped off about a pilgrimage, arrested him. He never left custody again.
Estimates, seizures, tax and fines differ.
R.S. Sharma was held a day after retiring, accused of shielding Telgi.
Twelve states were told to hand the CBI their records.
How a fragmented probe was centralised.
Ten years for a Rs 16 lakh fake stamp sale to solicitors in 1995.
He wept, apologised and pleaded guilty. The fine was over Rs 100 crore.
Main verdicts against Telgi, 2006-2010.
Most officials accused were acquitted.
Seven, seven and ten years in 2009; seven more in 2010.
He died of multi-organ failure after meningitis, aged 56.
He and seven RPF officials were cleared in one case for lack of evidence.
Twenty-four years in eight dates.
States moved to e-stamping. The scam's true size was never proved.
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