BANGALORE: The Special Court hearing the fake stamp paper racket case, in which Abdul Kareem Telgi is the main accused, will soon have multi-screen videoconferencing equipment.

The Department of Prisons has sent a proposal to the State Government to upgrade the present two-way videoconferencing unit installed in the court.

The new facility will have six screens on which accused persons lodged in different jails across the country can be `produced' in court simultaneously. The 51-inch plasma screen is divided into six segments: one will show the image of the court and the other five will show the accused lodged in Pune, Delhi and other jails. The cost of the equipment is Rs. 20 lakh, according to Additional Director-General (Prisons) S.T. Ramesh.

The new equipment is being purchased following a request by Special Judge Vishwanath Virupax Angadi, who had said that the multi-screen equipment would help the court save time in conducting the trial.

The accused in the fake stamp paper case are lodged in Pune, Mumbai and Delhi jails. Until now the accused were being produced in turns before the judge. The multi-screen facility will not only help produce all the accused at one go but also but also save time involved in switching from one prison to another.

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