About the Book: Telgi: A Reporters Diary
In the 1990s, when Abdul Kareem Telgi spent more than eighty lakh rupees on a
dancer in a dance bar one evening, he came under the target of the police,
politicians and the underworld.
Sanjay Singh, then a reporter at NDTV, broke the Telgi Scam story in 2003. At an
estimated 40,000 crores, it was a scam that shook our nation. From how he
graduated from being a fruit-seller to a travel agent in Mumbai to how he became
the kingpin of such a large scam, that, too, with the entire administrative
machinery, politicians, police, hand-in-glove with him-Telgis story is