A court in Nashik acquitted Abdul Karim Telgi, a convict in the counterfeit stamp paper scam, and others on Monday. Telgi died in October last year after suffering a severe case from meningitis.

Telgi was arrested in Ajmer in November 2001 and had been suffering from diabetes and hypertension for over 20 years, besides other ailments, including AIDS. He was serving his term in Parappana Agrahara Central Jail in Bengaluru after being sentenced to 30 years of rigorous imprisonment in multi-crore fake stamp paper racket.

A whopping fine of Rs 202 crore was also imposed on him. Telgi was in the thick of controversy when former DIG (Prisons) D Roopa had alleged that authorities were giving him preferential treatment in the prison.

He died in a Bengaluru hospital in October 2017.