Conspiracy to eliminate me, says Telgi

The stamp scam accused alleged before a local court that there was a conspiracy to eliminate him by slow poisoning.

Prime accused in the fake stamp paper scam, Abdul Karim Telgi, on Saturday alleged before a local court that there was a conspiracy to eliminate him by slow poisoning.

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Telgi, who, along with 60 other accused, was produced before additional sessions judge VV Borikar presiding the Special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court, alleged he was being put to untold misery, tortured and being slow poisoned as part of the conspiracy to eliminate him and necessary instructions should be passed to lift the lid off the 'plan'.

Telgi said that he was being kept in an egg cell where he could not talk to anybody.

Further, despite court orders, the jail authorities, particularly the medical officer, was being "careless" towards his health knowing well that "my condition was not good and that I have been referred to at least 17 hospitals all over the country over the period of time."

If anything happened to him, the jail authorities should be held responsible, Telgi said.

Earlier, Telgi's lawyer Harshad Nimbalkar submitted that despite clear orders by the MCOCA court to provide bedding and nutritious food to the accused and to allow him to talk to his mother and wife, the jail authorities were not complying.

He said Telgi was a HIV patient and therefore the court had allowed him to be taken for regular medical check-up.