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Abdul Karim Telgi gets body massage from convicted prisoners `allotted` to him: DIG (Prisons)
Multi-crore fake stamp paper scam kingpin Abdul Karim Telgi is serving his jail sentence at Parappana Agrahara Central Jail in Karnataka.
Bengaluru: Multi-crore fake stamp paper scam kingpin Abdul Karim Telgi, who is serving his jail sentence at Parappana Agrahara Central Jail here in Karnataka, gets body massage from three-four convicted prisoners ‘allotted’ to him.
DIG (Prisons) Roopa Moudgil in her report to to the state government has stated that VIP treatment was being meted out to Telgi inside the jail premises.
3-4 convicted prisoners have been allotted to Telgi for body massage, the DIG (Prisons) in her report has said.
The counterfeit stamp paper scam which was estimated to be around Rs 20,000 crores saw registration of 12 cases in Maharashtra between 1992 and 2002 and another 15 cases in other parts of the country.
Meanwhile, DIG Roopa's report has opened a Pandora's box. AIADMK general secretary and convict VK Sasikala Natarajan has been accused of bribing Karnataka Director General of Prisons (DGP) Satyanarayana Rao and city central jail officials for undue favours.
"Sasikala has given Rs 1 crore bribe to Rao and another Rs 1 crore was distributed among officials, including warden of the central jail where she is serving 4-year sentence in an illegal wealth case for allowing her special privileges," said a local news channel thats quoted Deputy Inspector of Prisons (DIG) Roopa Moudgil submitted to the state government.