NEW DELHI: Abdul Karim Telgi , a convict in the multi-crore counterfeit stamp paper scam, died of multi-organ failure at a Bengaluru government hospital.Telgi died around 3.55 pm at the Victoria Hospital , where he was admitted with meningitis a few days ago, police said.According to the doctors, the high-profile convict was on ventilator and life support after multi-organ failure, and was in a critical state.“He died of cardiac arrest,” said the authorities at the hospital.“Telgi whose condition was critical with multisystem failure had a cardiac arrest on Wednesday afternoon. In spite of all resuscitative measures he could not be revived and was declared dead at 3.55 pm,” said an official release from Trauma Care Centre, inside Victoria hospital campus.The 56-year-old was arrested in Ajmer in November 2001 and had been suffering from diabetes and hypertension for over 20 years, besides other ailments, including AIDS.He was serving his term in Parappana Agrahara Central Jail in Bengaluru after being sentenced to 30 years of rigorous imprisonment.A whopping fine of Rs 202 crore was also imposed on him.Recently, Telgi was in thick of controversy when former DIG (Prisons) D Roopa alleged that prison authorities were giving him preferential treatment in the prison.