Bangalore, Nov 29: Alleged kingpin in the sensational multi-crore fake stamp paper racket, Abdul Karim Telgi, denied he wrote a diary mentioning the involvement of 19 ministers in the scam, his counsel said. "He (Telgi) says he has not written that way,” counsel M T Nanaiah told reporters when asked about the diary. "They (Mumbai Police) have found the diary after he was in prison for two years. Who has written this diary, whose diary is it,” counsel Nanaiah asked.
Nanaiah said Telgi told him he furnished the names of nine persons in Bangalore for their involvement in the case but no action has been initiated against them.
Asked to name the nine, the counsel said these are "private persons" and not politicians and police officers.
Meanwhile, asked by reporters how many ministers were involved in the racket when he was being whisked away by police after coming out of a Bangalore court, Telgi replied "nobody".
On an application filed by Telgi, the second fast track sessions court judge K Nagaiah Shetty today ordered that chief medical officer of the central prison here submit a medical report on him to the court and adjourned further hearing to December six.
Claiming that Telgi was HIV positive, a diabetic and had an heart ailment, Nanaiah alleged that the stamp paper investigation team, constituted by Karnataka government, wanted to see him dead in jail.
Nanaiah told reporters outside the court that doctors who examined Telgi four months ago were of the opinion that his health condition was precarious and life in danger in six months unless he was given special medical treatment.
The judge observed that all stamp-paper cases would be transferred to the special court once communication was received from the high court in this regard, and adjourned the matter to December six. Bureau Report