On 1/17/06, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/5/06, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IIRC, the guy that was arrested in > > the Stamp Paper scam was also subjected to this (aside: whatever > > happened to that case? last I heard of it was over a year ago.) > > This just in: > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4620526.stm > > "A court in India's financial capital, Mumbai, has sentenced a man > found guilty of faking government stamp papers to 10 years in prison. > > Abdul Karim Telgi was found guilty of conspiracy, cheating and > counterfeiting stamp papers last week. > > The $650m fraud was discovered in 2002 and is said to be the biggest > in India's history. "
So what's a stamp paper used for? Declaring people dead? Transferring property? Marriages and divorces? I'm not familiar with the concept of "stamp paper" in the US, but it sounds like some sort of irrefutable magic paper whereupon any thing that appears on it is legally binding - useful in places where facts and records can't be checked easily, rather like a King's ring signifies that an order came directly from the King and no other. The closest thing I can think of to this is currency - paper legal tender. Anne Marie -- Moral Indignation is Jealousy with a halo. H.G. Wells, The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914)
