Telgi’s wife appeals against auction of property

Wife of Abdul Karim Telgi, the alleged kingpin in the multi-billion rupee stamp paper scam, has appealed to the Income Tax department in Karnataka not to auction the property belonging to the jailed scamster’s family on Brigade Road in Bangalore.

Shahida Telgi, wife of Abdul Karim Telgi, has sent a letter to the Income Tax Commissioner, Karnataka, stating that the family is dependent on the Rs 80,000 they receive as rent from a commercial building on Brigade Road.

If the request is not considered, Shahida wrote in the letter, that she and her daughter will have no option but to end their lives. The Income Tax Department has attached all other properties belonging to Telgi, she said.

Shahida also said that she ailing from diabetes. Besides, the cost of Telgi’s treatment is also being borne out from the rent her family was receiving from the building on Brigade Road in Bangalore.