Abdul Karim Telgi: Wiki, Bio, Age, Height, Death, Wife, Scam, Net Worth ·

12 Jul 2024, 00:00

Abdul Karim Telgi: Wiki, Bio, Age, Height, Death, Wife, Scam, Net Worth and details: Abdul Karim was a forger and a fraud who was convicted of fabricating stamp papers in India. He was believed to be in the center of a scam that took the whole nation by storm. Abdul was the main suspect and convict of the Stamp Paper Scam, unveiled in 2001. In the same year, he was put in prison and after spending 17 years in prison he died of multiple organ failure in the year 2018. The makers of the super hit TV Series “Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story” is going to make another series, this time based on the life of Telgi. The Sony LIV Series will be titled “Scam 2003: The Telgi Story.”

The Scam was unveiled by the journalist Sanjay Singh who wrote about it in his Hindi nook “Reporter Ki Diary”. The show is going to be based on his diary and will be helmed by Harshad Mehta. Read along to find more about the story of Abdul Karim Telgi the master forger.

Abdul Karim Telgi

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Abdul Karim Telgi Life and Education

He was born on the 29th of July in the year 1961. His age at the time of his death was 56 years. Karim died in Victoria Hospital in Bengaluru on the 23rd of October 2017. He was suffering from meningitis and hypertension and reportedly died of multiple organs failure. Telgi was born in Belgaum, Karnataka in a middle-class family. His father was a Class IV employee in the Indian Railways. His father met his demise when Abdul was just a child. He financed his own studies by selling fruits and doing odd jobs.

Talking about his educational background, Telgi studied at Sarvodaya Vidyalaya English Medium High School. After finishing high school, Abdul did not give up on his studies even after bearing harsh financial conditions. He joined the Goget College of Commerce where he received his B.Com Degree. Later, he moved to Mumbai in search of better career opportunities and ended up being a sales executive.

Abdul Karim Telgi

Abdul Karim Telgi Career

Telgi started his professional life but working at Felix India Limited in Maharashtra but soon left the job. He worked as a manager at Kishan Guest House in Colaba after leaving the job. Even after getting a decent job, he was not content as his dreams were very big, and he decided to leave India to fulfill his dream. Telgi got a job in Saudi Arabia in 1986, though he lost the job due to a lack of concentration and interest and returned to Mumbai after a few years.

After returning to India, he started working as a Travel Agent and used to help laborers in reaching the Arabian countries for work. He started forging fake immigration documents and was jailed for 3 years due to this crime. Telgi met Ram Ratan Soni in the prison and later started working for him to sell sticking tickets and non-judicial stamp papers. Both of them started growing their business by indulging more and more in illegal activities and counterfeit. Telgi’s stamp paper scam was so big that it can be inferred from this that he hired more than 300 MBA professionals to account for his money. The total cost of the whole scam was estimated to be in the range of ₹3000 crores to ₹30000 crores.

Abdul Karim Telgi Personal Life

Telgi was a married man. He was wedded to his wife named Shahida. From his marriage with Shahida, he had a daughter who was named Sana Talikoti. Sana is married to her husband Irfan Talikoti. His parents were Ladsaab Telgi and Shariefabee Ladsaab Telgi. Karim had two brothers who were named Abdul Rahim Telgi and Abdul Azim Telgi.

Regarding his physical attributes, he was a man of average height, Karim stood at a height of 5 feet and 5 inches. He weighed nearly 80kg.

Here is the full bio of Abdul Karim Telgi, his birthday, age, zodiac sign, height, weight, nationality, ethnicity. gender, married, wife, daughter, parents, siblings, education, high school, college, university, dance bar, money, scam, counterfeit, fraud, series, arrest, death, income, salary, net worth, and details.

Full Name	Abdul Karim Telgi
Nickname	Karim Lala
Birthday	29 July 1961
Death	23 October 2017
Age	56 Years
Nationality	Indian
Ethnicity	Not Known
Gender	Male
Parents	Ladsaab Telgi Shariefabee Telgi
Height	5'5 inches 1.6 m
Weight	80 kg 170 lbs
Profession	Stamp Paper Forger
Wife	Shahida Telgi
Daughter	Sana Talikoti
Net Worth	Rs. 20,000 Crore

Social Media Accounts:

There are official social media accounts of Telgi, but his latest updates can be followed through Instagram.

Some Lesser Known Facts About Abdul Karim

Telgi was a man of colorful nature. He regularly visited dance bars and had employed a dancer named Tarannum Khan whom he admired.
Telgi once rained 93 lakh rupees on the bar dancer Tarannum Khan.
He was declared HIV Positive in the year 2002. His lawyer alleged that he was injected with the virus in police custody.
Telgi was nicknamed Karim Lala.

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Abdul Karim Telgi: Wiki, Bio, Age, Height, Death, Wife, Scam, Net Worth