Nasik, November 28
Three employees of city-based India Security Press have been arrested while four, including ISP’s ex-general manager, have been suspended in connection with the multi-crore fake stamps and stamp paper scam.“An inquiry by special investigation team (SIT) and the CBI is in progress at the ISP. The Centre is taking action against its employees after reports submitted to it by SIT and Banglore’s stamp-investigation team,” according to ISP sources here today. So far three officers — chief purchase officer, a section officer and a clerk — have been arrested while four employees have been suspended over the last one-month period, sources said.
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DELHI: Maharashtra Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde today accused the Central Government of playing “politics” in the Telgi scam by changing its stand on the issue.
“The Central Government in August told the Mumbai high court that it would not be possible for the CBI to undertake investigation in such a case, where large number of states were involved. Now the CBI says that it was ready to investigate the Telgi case”, the Chief Minister told newspersons here.
Asserting that no one would be let off, the Chief Minister said whoever had done it, would face the consequences.
Indicating action against former Commissioner of the Mumbai Police R.S. Sharma for naming 19 persons in the court yesterday for their involvement in the scam, the Chief Minister admitted that he had given the details without informing the state government. As per the government service rules, a government servant has to seek government permission to make any statement in the court.
Describing the case as the Central Government scam, the Chief Minister said it all started from the Central Government security printing press at Nasik.
Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party today demanded that the Maharashtra Government should disclose the names of 19 ministers and state government officials figuring in the diary of Abdul Karim Telgi, the kingpin of scam, as disclosed by former Mumbai Police Commissioner R S Sharma.
— PTI, UNI
