Brigand Veerappan is "cornered and holed up", Karnataka Chief Minister S M Krishna said on Tuesday.

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The special task forces of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are cooperating and jointly looking for him, and this has put him on the "back-foot", he said while launching the operational phase of the Karnataka Telemedicine Project at the ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network in Bangalore.

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"We hope one of these days we will get a message that can make us feel very relieved," he added.