New Delhi, October 26: An advocate on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking its direction to the CBI to take the help of cyber experts to probe contents of a laptop recovered from Abdul Karim Telgi in which names of politicians figured in connection with the stamp paper scam.
The application filed by advocate Ajay Agrawal claimed that the laptop which was recovered on July 10, 2003 from Telgi’s residence and sent to CFSL, Hyderabad, is the “most important evidentiary valuable material” in the scam.
The advocate, on whose petition the apex court had ordered CBI probe into the 48 cases arising out of the scam on November 17, 2003, the monitoring of which was stopped since January 10, 2005 after chargesheets were filed, sought a direction for the investigating agency to file upto date status report.
Agrawal said he was moving the apex court again as the Bench which disposed of his petition in 2005 had given him liberty to knock the doors of the top court if at any stage of the investigation he was not satisfied with the approach of the CBI.
The multi-crore rupee scam of 2000-03, which had its roots in Maharashtra and Karnataka, had inter-state ramifications.
Telgi was arrested in 2003 for running a fake stamp paper syndicate.
–Agencies