New Delhi, Nov 25: Tightening its noose around the Rs 30,000 crore Telgi scam, CBI today registered a case following a notification from Finance Ministry asking it to "investigate, country-wide, the entire episode of mass circulation of fake revenue stamps." The notification follows Allahabad High Court order directing the ministry to ask the CBI to register a case...And investigate, country-wide, the entire episode of mass circulation of fake revenue stamps. Following this, the CBI registered a case to go into the alleged distribution of forged stamps and stamp papers at Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh. CBI sources said a case of alleged distribution of forged stamps would be conducted by the agency and ascertain whether the scamster Abdul Karim Telgi was involved in it.


The sources said that the agency had re-registered the case filed by the up police in which the cops had recovered fake stamps worth lakhs of rupees.

Acting on a petition, the Allahabad High Court decided to direct the Finance Ministry to ask CBI for a probe into entire case and its ramifications coutrywide.

While requesting for a through CBI investigation, the Finance Ministry said that on the basis of intelligence inputs and findings of security agencies, three officers of the Indian security press at Nasik had been suspended and persons holding sensitive posts have been transferred. Bureau Report