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K Vijay Kumar, IPS (born 15 September 1952), is a retired IPS officer. He was the chief of the Special Task Force of Tamil Nadu that was involved in the death of the Veerappan during Operation Cocoon of 2004. He had also been the senior advisor to Home Ministry for the Left Wing Extremism areas.
Vijay Kumar was the head of the Tamil Nadu STF, and was running Operation Cocoon. He had been given the job in 2001 by then chief minister J Jayalalithaa; before that, he had been...
Oct 15, 2022 · Decorated police officer K Vijay Kumar, who was credited for eliminating forest brigand Veerappan, has resigned as the senior security advisor in the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).
Oct 7, 2017 · IPS officer K Vijay Kumar, known for heading the task force operation that led to Veerappan's encounter, narrates how he worked through a personal loss when Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated.
Nov 1, 2004 · When a number of underground dons and criminals in Chennai fell to police bullets in 2001-3, human-rights activists blamed the then commissioner of police K. Vijay Kumar and nicknamed him Mr Encounter.
Feb 25, 2017 · The 65-year-old former STF chief does push-ups on the Marina in Chennai. This is not in his book but Veerappan, India’s most notorious bandit, had K. Vijay Kumar, India’s most famous...
Jun 6, 2016 · Retired IPS officer K Vijay Kumar is currently writing the nearly 1,000 page book on Veerappan, who had ruled 6,000 sq km forest in three Southern states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala for more than two decades, poached over 200 elephants, smuggled ivory worth hundreds of crore of rupees and killed more than 180 people, mostly police and ...
Jul 12, 2019 · In 2017, 13 years after the dreaded smuggler, Veerappan, was shot dead, K Vijay Kumar, the Special Task Force (STF) chief from Tamil Nadu, instrumental in nabbing Veerappan, wrote a book on the...
Jun 7, 2016 · The almost 1000 page book on Veerappan is being written by retired IPS officer K Vijay Kumar. “It is a first-hand experience book. My aim is to give a clear and correct picture on how...
Nov 18, 2004 · Vijay Kumar, who worked under Walter I. Dawaram during the early stages of the hunt for Veerappan, took over as the chief of the joint command of the Tamil Nadu and Karnataka STFs only in...
