Abdul Karim Telgi, who was convicted in the ₹20,000-crore fake stamp paper scam, died aged 56 in Bengaluru's Victoria Hospital on Thursday afternoon. Suffering from meningitis, Telgi was admitted to the hospital last week. The 56-year-old was arrested in 2001 and was serving a 30-year prison term in the Parappana Agrahara jail.