BANGALORE: Multicrore stamp paper racket kingpin Abdul Karim Lala Telgi does not want to be handed over to the Pune’s Yerwada jail and one of the reasons he has stated for it, is that he wants to attend his daughter’s wedding.Telgi, who has spent a decade in the Bangalore Central Prison, managed to obtain conditional bail recently from the High Court on health grounds.However, on Saturday, his wife Shahida got to know that the officials are planning to shift him to Pune’s Yerwada jail. TH Lakshminarayana, the Chief Superintendent of Parappana Agrahara Prison told The New Indian Express that Telgi wants his daughter to be married soon as she is already engaged and he wants to be there for it after coming out of jail.He also wants to be in Bangalore jail as he feels safer here as Karnataka is his homeland. Telgi also claims that he is suffering from many diseases and does not want to be shifted to Pune, he added.“We have brought Telgi from Yerwada jail for conducting trials in various cases and he would not be released from here and hence will be sent back to the Pune Prison where he was imprisoned,” Lakshminarayana said.Telgi was brought to Bangalore Central Prison from Yerwada on the condition that he would not be released but returned. Shahida’s letterAfter the Parappana Agrahara Central Prison officials decided to shift Telgi, his wife Shahida Telgi has requested the prison officials not to do so, citing that might put his life at risk.In her letter to the ADG&IG Prisons, Shahida said that her husband, who is now serving his judicial custody in Bangalore jail, is being transferred to Pune where his life might be in danger.Corroborating her claim, she said that Telgi’s confessional statement before the Magistrate connected many people from Pune and Maharastra and shifting him back to Yerwada jail will endanger his life.Besides this, Telgi is suffering from ailments such as diabetes, hypertension, HIV and partial blindness. “He has severe neurological problems and lost sensation in his legs and arms and moving with the support of wheel chair. He is being treated for all this diseases in Bangalore and shifting him would make impossible to continue with the same treatment,” she said.“Telgi has every right to protest his transfer, as he is completely dependent and being his family, we can not assure personal visit every day to the jail to take care of him,” she pleaded.She also said about the rights of the prisoner is to stay in a place where his relatives and dependents are living. Moreover, the communication between Pune and the Bangalore officials indicated that Telgi is not required in Yerwada jail, she claimed.Shahida also brought to the notice of the ADGP that the then IGP in May 2010 stated that Telgi cannot be transferred to Pune jail since he has been convicted in cases in the city.
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