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A
STATUS REPORT ON THE TASK FORCE CONSTITUTED
TO NAB THE NOTORIOUS KILLER VEERAPPAN
AND HIS ASSOCIATES
 1.
PRELUDE : Born on
18th January 1952 in Gopinatham, a remote village in the
midst of dense forest and hills on the bank of river
Cauvery in a Padiyachi Gounder family, Kuse Muniswamy
Veerappa Gounder alias Molakkan alias Veerappan, grew to
be a unique criminal unparalleled in Indian history.
Having had no formal education, he took to cattle
grazing in the midst of deep forests living in "Natthas"
or "Doddis". From the childhood he took to
hunting. At the behest of the then established hunter
Sevigounder, he shot a tusker at the age of 14 years,
which earned him great notoriety. At the age of 17, he
committed a murder with the help of two more persons, a
tradition with which he continued throughout.
Veerappan
and his associates have hitherto killed over 120
persons, (including Police Officers) - 55 from Karnataka
and 66 from Tamilnadu; poached over 2,000 tuskers,
bringing in an abnormal ratio of tusker : makhana*
elephants and denuded sandalwood costing over Rs.200
crores. He has systematically created terror by
indulging in selective killings representing regional
and social groups (killed 3 PSIs and a PC at Hogenkal,
blasted 22 Policemen and informants at Palar, brutally
beheaded popular Forest Officer Mr. Srinivas at
Yerkehalla near Gopinatham, ambushed senior Police
Officer Mr. Harikrishna, Superintendent of Police,
Mysore
* Makhana = A male
elephant, bearing no tusks, but capable of breeding even
tuskers.
 and Mr.
Shakeel Ahmed, PSI, M.M.Hills Police Station near
Meenyam, killed 5 Policemen and looted armoury at
Ramapura Police Station, ambushed Superintendent of
Police Mr. Gopal Hosur and killed 5 Policemen and looted
5 Self Loading Rifles at Rangaswamy Oddu near M.M.Hills;
killed 5 Soligas at Gaddesal (Tamilnadu), 5 lingayaths
at Manjugummapatti (Tamilnadu), 7 Badagas at Punjanur
(Karnataka), a Lambani near Gopinatham, 5 of his own
cousins at Gopinatham village, two Padiyachis at
Gopinatham, namely Koteyur Madaiah and his brother, a
Shetty and his son at Nallur and brutally tortured and
killed Kandavelu, a Padiyachi and Bhaktavatsalam, a
student near Talamalai (Tamilnadu). Most of his killings
are of Police and Forest Officials and suspected police
supporters and informants. (A list of his crimes
enclosed as Appendix - A).
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