He paid for his own education at Sarvodaya Vidyalaya by selling fruits and vegetables on trains.
He is today famous (or infamous) for being he man behind one of India's biggest scams.
The Telgi case is another big scam that rocked India. The fake stamp racket involving Abdul Karim Telgi was exposed in 2000. The loss is estimated to be Rs 171.33 crore (Rs 1.71 billion), it was initially pegged to be Rs 30,000 crore (Rs 300 bilion), which was later clarified by the CBI as an exaggerated figure.
In 1994, Abdul Karim Telgi acquired a stamp paper license from the Indian government and began printing fake stamp papers.
Telgi bribed to get into the government security press in Nashik and bought special machines to print fake stamp papers.
Telgi's networked spread across 13 states involving 176 offices, 1,000 employees and 123 bank accounts in 18 cities.
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