Bengaluru: Meesekar Madaiah (70), an associate of forest brigand Veerappan, who was serving life term for his role in the 1993 Palar bomb blast that killed 22 Police personnel, died of health issues at Victoria Hospital in Bengaluru on Sunday. Madaiah, who was serving life sentence at Mysore Central Prison since 34 years, was shifted…
Mysore/Mysuru: Jnanaprakash, an aide of forest brigand late Veerappan, who was serving life sentence in Mysuru Central Prison, was released on bail this morning. The Chamarajanagar District and Sessions Court had recently ordered for the release of 68-year-old Jnanaprakash on the surety of two persons and Rs. 5 lakh bond. This follows the recent Supreme…
Salem (TN): Madhaiyan (80), the elder brother of sandalwood smuggler Veerappan died of a cardiac arrest at the Government Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College and Hospital in Salem in the early hours of Wednesday, Police said. A native of Kadumalaikoodal near Mettur in Salem district, Madhaiyan leaves behind his wife. Madhaiyan was undergoing a life term…
In most nations, when a good citizen sees a Policeman it arouses a sense of security; here it arouses fear and distrust — Mumbai Police have shown why. The Mumbai Police might have destroyed the Mumbai underworld but then a new one was born… born from amongst its own ranks. This is not just a…
Karnataka Govt. paid the brigand in three instalments Book by former ‘Nakkheeran’ journalist reveals startling details about kidnap and ransom Mysore/Mysuru: So much mythology has sprung up around kidnapper, elephant poacher and sandalwood smuggler Koose Muniswamy Veerappan that it is practically impossible to weed out fact from fiction. While his elephant poaching and sandalwood smuggling…
22 persons were killed in blast engineered by forest brigand Veerappan on April 9, 1993 Mysore/Mysuru: A convict in the Palar bomb blast case engineered by forest brigand Veerappan breathed his last at K.R. Hospital in city this morning. He has been identified as 66-year-old Moris Gownder Bilavendran. Bilavendran was housed at the Mysuru Central…
Mysore/Mysuru: Former CRPF IGP K. Arakesh said that retired Police Officer P. Venkataswamy, who passed away recently, was the first Police officer to file a case of murder against forest Brigand Veerappan over forty years ago as a Police Sub-Inspector then. He was speaking at P. Venkataswamy condolence prog. organised at Negilayogi Maruleshwara Seva Bhavan…
Police got clues about her after she opened fire at an elephant herd Kollegal: A woman associate of forest brigand Veerappan was arrested by Kollegal Crime Branch Police in Chamarajanagar District on Saturday, 27 years after she was booked under the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA). Forty-year-old Stella alias Stella Mary had been…
Former Principal Chief Conservator of Forests B.K. Singh pays tribute to unsung heroes in his book Mysuru: He terrorised the jungles of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka for years before he was shot and killed by the Tamil Nadu Special Task Force in October 2004. Elephant poacher and forest brigand Veerappan, with his characteristic bushy whiskers,…
Hanur: Ramapura Police, on Sunday, have finally arrested the aide of forest brigand Veerappan after 25 years. The arrested person, identified as 52-year-old Shivaswamy alias Dumble Gundi of Veppede village in Sathyamangalam coming under Erode district in Tamil Nadu, had gone absconding 25 years ago and was arrested from D.G. Puduru village in Sathyamangalam, where…
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