Mumbai, Nov 02: Many skeletons are likely to come out of the cupboard in the multi-crore fake stamp paper case with the Karnataka government expected to file before Mumbai High Court transcript of telephone talks between prime accused Abdul Karim Telgi and others on alleged payment of bribes to cops to hush up the cases. The vacation Judge D G Karnik had allowed Karnataka government to file the transcript of such talks by Monday before the bench headed by Chief Justice C K Thakker.

The court had earlier asked Karnataka government to produce by October 29 transcript of telephonic talks between Telgi and others. It had also directed Director General of Police S S Puri to probe the alleged role of Mumbai Police Commissioner R S Sharma in the multi-crore fake stamp paper scam and submit a report by November 12. The Karnataka government, however, pleaded on October 29 that they were unable to produce the transcript of telephonic talks because they were in various languages and translating them into English was time consuming.

Additional Director General of Police Sri Kumar asked for four weeks time to produce the transcripts. The court, however, granted time till November 3.

Sri Kumar said these talks referred to Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Mulani accepting bribe of Rs 15 lakhs for deleting the name of Telgi's wife and others from the chargesheet and bargaining with Telgi for further sum. Sri Kumar said his team was involved in the process of transcripting the talks but the work was time consuming and could not be finished within the prescribed period. Hence, he urged for time to produce the transcripts.

Bureau Report