During the 1990s and early 2000s, the forest brigand, K. Veerappan, who held sway over the forests of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, was notorious for poaching elephants for ivory. While that is now a ...

The N S Sangolli commission which inquired into the death of Arjunan, brother of forest brigand Veerappan, and two of his associates, concluded that the three had indeed committed suicide and ...

The Tamil Nadu government has now entrusted Gopal with the task of negotiating the release of nine Karnataka forest officials held hostage by Veerappan, followed by a surrender by Veerappan himself.

The department referred to an instance where some students glorified slain forest brigand Veerappan by displaying a T-shirt with his photo at an annual day event in Krishnagiri district recently.