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Stamp vendors' plea to Govt.

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD Sept. 14. The Andhra Pradesh Stamp Vendors' Welfare Association on Sunday urged the Government to revoke the GO which prohibited stamp vendors from selling Rs. 500 non-judicial stamps.

Addressing a press conference here, the association's president, Y. Ram Prasad Naidu, and the secretary, P. Ramakrishnaiah, observed the GO would affect stamp vendors.

According to them, the GO was issued to check the possible involvement of stamp vendors, if any, in the fake stamp papers case. "However, these doubts are baseless as records of the every stamp sold by us are maintained by the respective sub- registrars,'' they said. They said that the alleged kingpin of the scam, Kareem Telgi, sold fake stamps of higher denomination non-judicial stamps (between Rs. 500 and Rs. 25,000) and adhesive stamps.

``We want to remind the Government that stamp vendors never sold stamps of such denomination and they were sold exclusively by the Government,'' they maintained. Mr. Naidu and Ramakrishnaiah said that no clinching evidence against any of the 8,000 stamp vendors in the State was found so far in connection with the scam.

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