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NEW DELHI, Friday (AFP) A retired senior police officer Thursday became the latest in a series of politicians and high-level lawmen arrested for alleged involvement in a 662 million dollar legal document scam, reports said.

Zee television news channel said Mohammed Chand Mulani was charged because he failed to carry out satisfactory investigations into the case.

Last week former Bombay police chief R.S. Sharma was also arrested in connection with the fraud which is estimated to have cost the state exchequer about 30 billion rupees (662.8 million dollars) in lost revenue.

A team of special investigators have been trying to uncover links between the police and Abdul Karim Telgi, a former travel agent and the alleged brain behind an operation forging stamp paper, used for legal documents in India.

The scam has also put a question mark over the legal status of thousands of financial transactions running into billions of dollars in which stamp papers were used.

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