The accused faced trial for 20 years," additional CJM N N Pathar said. Of the 16 named, prime accused Abdul Karim Telgi and eight others confessed to their crime and were convicted in 2009.

Back in 2005, when Irrfan was grappling with his impulses as an emerging actor, he was to do a film with producer Pooja Bhatt on the scamster Telgi. That project never happened. Telgi finally came ...

Gagan Dev Riar winning the Filmfare OTT award for his self-effacing performance as Abdul Karim Telgi’s Scam 2003 is not the kind of in-your-face act that gets noticed. That he did get noticed ...

Hansal Mehta and Jai Mehta co-directed the web series. The second instalment, Scam 2003: The Telgi Story, was about the story ...