Veerappan surrounded by STF, capture soon: DGP

Sandalwood smuggler Veerappan has been surrounded in the MM Hills area by the personnel of the Special Task Forces of both Karnataka and Tam...

Sandalwood smuggler Veerappan has been surrounded in the MM Hills area by the personnel of the Special Task Forces of both Karnataka and Tamil Nadu and he would find it very difficult to escape the dragnet, a high-ranking official of the Tamil Nadu police said today.

‘‘Veerappan is holed up now and he will be nabbed very soon,’’ Tamil Nadu Director General of Police, R. Rajagopalan, told reporters here.

The DGP, who had himself ventured into the forest recently and stayed there for three days for an on-the-spot assessment of the progress made in the efforts to nab Veerappan, said police had fixed four ‘points’ for intensive combing operations. These were Ilanjikarai, Kattakarai and Palaru in Tamil Nadu and Thengadi on the Karnataka side.

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Asked to comment on reports of Veerappan planning to strike again, he ruled out the possibility and shot back: ‘‘How can a man on the run in a restricted area strike?’’

The DGP, who was speaking to reporters after visiting an STF constable in hospital who was injured in an accident, said that the government would meet all his treatment expenses.

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