Veerappan biography for kids
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Veerappan, the saviour?
In his lifetime, Veerappan was the bandit king of India, a legendary figure who would spring out from the obscurity of impenetrable jungles on to front pages of newspapers and television headlines with sudden acts of audacity. When he was killed in October 2004, 20,000 people showed up for his funeral in the fjärrstyrd village of Gopinatham in en delstat i indien. The Economist ran an obituary of the man recalling an “Osama-style video that showed him talking with relish of the pain inflicted on one victim before he blew his head off”. It also noted that a 750-strong task force had spent 14 years and a fortune trying to catch him.
Veerappan killed 138 people including 32 policemen, and 1000 elephants. His sandalwood haul is estimated at Rs 100 crore. Yet, five years after his death, poaching and smuggling have only increased in the 6,000 square km of forest in the three states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala that Veerappan had lorded over.
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Revisiting life and death of forest brigand Veerappan almost two decades on
Big-moustachioed Veerappan, once a terror of Tamil Nadu-Karnataka forests, was a sharpshooter, who never missed his target.
His plans were sharp, detailed and flawless. But once, he committed three mistakes, and they proved fatal for him.
As web series of the day revisit the now infamous hunt for the hunter, we recall Content Editor of Manorama Online R Krishna Raj's account of how the notorious elephant hunter was slain back then.
Krishna Raj visited Dharmapuri in Tamil Nadu the day Veerappan was gunned down, and investigated the events that led to the fall of the dreaded forest brigand.
This is the first of the two-part investigative report.
The Special Task Force (STF) that killed Veerappan near Padi in Dharmapuri has been facing one question ever since October 18, 2004
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Veerappan
Indian criminal (1952–2004)
This article is about the person. For the 2016 Kannada film, see Killing Veerappan. For the Bollywood film, see Veerappan (2016 film).
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| Born | Koose Munusamy Veerappan (1952-01-18)18 January 1952 Gopinatham, Madras State, India |
| Died | 18 October 2004(2004-10-18) (aged 52)[1] Papparapatti, Dharmapuri, Tamil Nadu, India[1] |
| Cause of death | Ballistic trauma[1] |
| Resting place | Moolakadu, Tamil Nadu, India |
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| Spouse | Muthulakshmi (m. 1990–2004) |
| Children | 2 |
Reward amount | ₹52 crore (equivalent to ₹198 crore or US$23 million in 2023) |
Capture status | Deceased |
| Escaped | 1986 |
| Escape end | 2004 |
| Comments | ₹784 crore (equivalent to ₹30 billion or US$350 million in 2023) spent to capture |
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