Wednesday, April 19 2006 10:18 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: The CBI has filed another chargesheet against Abdul Karim Telgi, prime accused in the fake stamps racket, and four others for making and selling counterfeit Government stamps.

The chargesheet was filed before Special Judge Chandra Shekhar against Telgi, Navneet Kumar, Sohail Khan, L M Tirvir and Sachin Kalge, in a case registered here in 1999.

Two others, Vijay D Patel and Mohammed Abdul Hafeez, have already been chargesheeted in connection with the same case, on similar charges, besides criminal conspiracy and cheating.

The matter comes up for consideration of charge tomorrow.

All the accused are in judicial custody in various cases, except for Navneet, who was arrested only on April 14.

According to the chargesheet, accused Hafeez, as proprietor of M/s Capital Services, allegedly sold counterfeit government stamps from his South Extension office here.

The police raided the premises in 1999, where they caught accused Patil, who was present on the spot. On his disclosure, authorities recovered fake stamps worth over Rs 18,000.

CBI alleges that the office was a being used as a front for a larger conspiracy with Telgi at its head. It says Telgi would frequently visit the office and issue instructions to the others to 'strengthen the sale of the stamps'.

The agency further alleges that Navneet, a marketing executive with the company, operated a current account with UCO Bank, transacting over Rs 3 million connection with such sales. Some of these stamps, retrieved by the CBI, were confirmed by concerned authorities as being forged.

The agency also said that no vendor license for such sale had ever been issued to the office, Hafeez or Khan.