Thursday, February 23 2006 18:31 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Chennai: A CBI court here today (Feb 23 2006) furnished copies of the 3000-page chargesheet in the 'fake stamp paper scam' to four persons, including DIG of Police A P Mohammed Ali, out of the 11 accused in the case.

The other accused furnished with copies were the then Assistant Commissioner of Police, S Sankar, LIC Officer R Sadhu and Nazeem.

Abdul Karim Telgi a key accused, Abdul Wahid and Jacob Chako, all lodged in Pune prison, Nizamuddin, Balaji, Peter Kennedy and Sarfraz Nawaz were not given the copies as they were not present in the court.

CBI Judge B Dakshinamurthy then adjourned the case to March 23.

The chargesheet was filed on December 13, 2005 and contains statements of 190 prosecution witnesses and 340 pieces of documentary evidence for the court's scrutiny.

The accused have been charged under IPC sections for criminal conspiracy (120-B), forgery for the purpose of cheating (468),possession of Indian coins by a person who knew it to be altered (253) and forging government stamps (255). The police officer has been also charged under Section 13(1)(D) of the Prevention of Corruption Act.

According to prosecution, the accused conspired and produced fake stamps and sold them in the state, resulting in loss of crores of rupees to the government.