The sale of fake stamp papers is an organised racket that involves notaries, advocates and agents and, of course, photo copiers Following the Rs 33,000 crore Telgi scam, stamp papers are legally ...

Pune: The state revenue department said that despite discussions in the assembly during the monsoon session about doing away with the physical form of stamp papers in denominations of Rs100 and Rs500, ...

The revenue department has proposed to make franking mandatory instead of the stamp paper regime for all legal documents. The government has already made it mandatory to pay stamp duty over ₹10,000 by ...

Nothing wrong with a good franking scandal -- that is, a scandal about high officials abusing their free mailing or "franking" privilege. After all, there have been plenty of those scandals throughout ...

11 arrested, fake documents worth Rs 5.1 lakh seized from stall running at Kandaya Bhavan The Special Inquiry Wing of the Central Crime Branch (CCB) busted a racket of organised syndicate of fake ...

The Karnataka government banned the open sale of stamp papers in the 1990s after the multi-crore Telgi fake stamp paper case. The Central Crime Branch (CCB) arrested a gang of 11 members in Bengaluru ...

Kurnool: There is an acute shortage of non-judicial stamp papers across Kurnool district. This has created severe hardships for buyers and sellers registering property. In fact, the shortage has been ...

BENGALURU: The Karnataka High Court on Thursday issued notice to the State Government on a public interest petition seeking directions to entrust the probe into a case of fabrication of documents at ...

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) formed to probe the prevalence of fake stamp papers raided four premises in the city on Saturday and recovered a huge cache of fake stamp papers. Five people were ...

Nagpur: The legislative council on Friday passed the Maharashtra Stamp (Amendment) 2024 bill which among other things will increase stamp duty on affidavits to Rs500, from the earlier Rs100. An ...