- The state-level probe did not examine the Ganga Prakash aspect, though the bureaucrat-politician-police nexus in the ISP, Nasik, lies at the heart of the scam.
- Telgi's key associate, Samajwadi Janata Party MLA Anil Ghote, who is now in jail, was the Shiv Sena-bjp nominee for the post of deputy speaker of the Maharashtra legislative assembly in '99. Ghote was deeply involved in the attempted toppling of the Congress-NCP government in June 2002 by creating a breakaway faction of MLAs to support Rane-Munde. Evidence shows that these six MLAs were promised and/or given Rs 3 crore each. Was Telgi money, conveniently routed through Ghote, used by Rane-Munde?
- In mid-'95, the stamps superintendent detected malpractices, registered the first seven cases against Telgi and cancelled his licence. Yet Telgi continued to flourish, obviously under police and political patronage. Rane was then the revenue minister and went on to become the chief minister. Rane appeared before the SIT but was let off lightly.
- Documents sourced by Outlook show that the state revenue from stamps and registration fees registered a sharp decline in 1996-97 and again in 1998-99. At one point, the drop was as much as Rs 300 crore in a single year. Either the revenue department did not notice, or chose to ignore it. Rane has not been made answerable for the sharp drop at a time when the economy was booming. (Rane preferred to say nothing when contacted by Outlook.)
- Police transfers, politician-police vested interests and home department irregularities were the key subject of the SIT investigation, to the exclusion of other issues set out in the probe's terms of reference.The starting point of the SIT investigation was in 1999 when Bhujbal took charge of the home portfolio and not from 1995 when Munde helmed the ministry. Records, however, reveal that Telgi's "success" in expanding his network was between 1994 and 1999.
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