'He was able to push the AIADMK to the background.'
'What is it about the institution of faith that makes somebody get a sense of impunity, that they believe they can get away with anything?'
'He killed so many people, doing the kind of horrible things he did, and yet, he believed he was making the right choices.'
Kumar, who put in his papers sometimes ago due to personal reasons, has vacated his accommodation in Delhi and relocated to Chennai.
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'Kutti' Veerappan was wanted in connection with a number of murder, poaching and other cases.
STF chief K Vijayakumar said: "We are looking for a man, who is supposed to be an abettor."
'We gathered information that Veerappan never believed his close lieutenant Sethukuli Govindan and used to speak contemptuously and dismissively about Sethumani of the TLA,' STF chief Vijaykumar said.
Kumaresan, treasurer of the Tamils Liberation Army, was involved in the recent blast of a power transmission tower in Toppaiyankulam near Cuddalore.
They reportedly helped the brigand during the abduction episode of Nagappa.
Ponnachi Mahadevaswamy said that during his secret meetings with the brigand, the latter wanted to surrender in the presence of George Fernandes, S M Krishna and seer of Suttur Mutt.
St. Joseph Matriculation Higher Secondary School has decided to issue transfer certificate to Prabha, a class VII student, sources said.
A diary maintained by forest brigand Veerappan, which could throw light on a saga of murders, kidnappings and extortion, was seized at the scene of last week's encounter in Dharmapuri district of Tamil Nadu.
Veerappan's wife Muthulakshmi, his daughter Vijayarani Yuvarani and his brother's wife Muniapppa were present at the burial ground.
The intelligence input was as specific as it gets -- four persons, including Veerappan, are moving in an ambulance on their way to a hospital.
Five associates of forest brigand Veerappan were sentenced to life imprisonment by a fast track court on charges of abducting nine forest officials of Tamil Nadu in July 1997.
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A Special Task Force team of the Tamil Nadu police, headed by Jaykumar, shot dead the dacoit and three of his associates in an encounter in Dharmapuri district.
Muthulakshmi, wife of slain forest brigand Veerappan, on Friday sought a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into alleged atrocities committed by Special Task Force personnel during the hunt to nab him.
Sixth additional sessions judge R Sadayandi restrained the channel from telecasting the serial, either in the name of Maveeran Veerappan or Santhanakadu, including its advertisement and trial version of the serial about Veerappan in any form.
Four aides of sandalwood smuggler Veerappan on Saturday moved the Supreme Court against the execution of their death penalty in connection with a landmine blast that had killed 22 policemen in Karnataka nearly 20 years ago.
The organisation will also work for the early release of the Sadasivam Commission report, which went into the alleged STF atrocities and also seek adequate compensation to the victims.
'A precedent in the Rajv killers' plea for freedom may flow from slain brigand Veerappan's 2000 demand for the release of 109 associates languishing in prisons in Karnataka for him to release abducted Kannada matinee icon, the late Rajkumar.' 'Acting on a petition filed by the father of a Karnataka cadre IPS officer killed by Veerappan, the Supreme Court reversed the orders of lower court orders in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.' 'If democratically-elected governments give an impression to the citizens of this country of being law-breakers, would it not breed contempt for the law? Would it not invite citizens to become a law unto themselves?' the Supreme Court had observed on the occasion, recalls N Sathiya Moorthy.
The STF had captured Veerappan and his three associates two days before they were actually killed, human rights activists claimed.
Wife of slain forest brigand Veerappan on Tuesday stepped out a free woman from a jail in Bengaluru, and said she would write a book on alleged atrocities by the Special Task Force that was formed to hunt down her husband.
Slain sandalwood smuggler Veerappan's wife Muthulakshmi has appealed to the Tamil Nadu government to take steps for commuting the death sentence awarded to four of his associates in the 1993 Palar landmine explosion case.
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