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Operation Cocoon was a 2004 police operation launched by the Special Task Force of Tamil Nadu Police to nab the forest brigand Veerappan and his associates, who were dominant in Sathyamangalam Forest in the South Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala. The operation was headed by the then (Director General of Police )], K. Vijay Kumar IPS. Veerappan was shot dead in the operation on 18 October 2004 along with three of his associates, Sethukuli Govinda, Chandre Gowda and Sethumani, while four policemen were injured. Veerappan defied the state governments of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala and Indian Border security paramilitary forces, and maintained a small army, which at one point numbered hundreds. He was wanted for killing approximately 184 people, about half of whom were police officers, including senior police and forest officials. He was also wanted for poaching about 200 elephants and smuggling ivory worth US$2,600,000 and about 10,000 tonnes of sandalwood worth approximately US$22,000,000. The joint Special Task Force (STF) operation of Veerappan, constituted in 1991 by the state governments of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, is considered one of the costliest in Indian history, consuming 1 billion over the years. ==Background== Veerappan (Koose Muniswamy Veerappan, 18 January 1952 – 18 October 2004), also called "Sandalwood Veerappan" aka Hariprasad Chennuru , was an Indian bandit (also called a dacoit in India) who was active for years in scrub and forest lands covering about 6,000 km² in the states of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. For over a decade, Veerappan defied the state governments of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala and Indian Border security paramilitary forces, and maintained a small army, which at one point numbered hundreds. He was wanted for killing approximately 184 people, about half of whom were police officers, including senior police and forest officials. During his video interview with ''Nakkeeran'' editor R. Gopal, he confessed to the 120 murders he committed. While his initial days of dacoity were restricted to satisfying his financial needs, his later actions included demand of release of militants from jail in exchange of the hostages. Veerappan first came in news when he murdered Chidambaram, a forest officer who was against his illegal trade. In 1991, he shot P Srinivas, a Karnataka Deputy Conservator of Forests and beheaded in a Kali temple. During the subsequent years, he killed tens of police officers and tribal people, whom he felt, were against his illegal trade. In 1997, he kidnapped Karnataka forest officers and after lot of negotiations with ''Nakkeeran'' editor Gopal, he released them. In the same year, he kidnapped 21 tourists, but later released them without any harm.〔 He came to national limelight when he kidnapped the Kannada actor Rajkumar during 2000.〔Krupakar 2011 , p. 7〕〔K.G. 2004, p. 322〕 His last big crime was in 2000, when he abducted H. Nagappa, a former minister of Karnataka on August 25, 2002. Nagappa was found dead 106-days later in the forest, 40 km from Kamagere, but Veerappan denied his killing.〔 He was also wanted for poaching about 200 elephants and smuggling ivory worth US$2,600,000 and about 10,000 tonnes of sandalwood worth approximately US$22,000,000. A reward of was offered for Veerappan's capture, yet he evaded arrest for 20 years until he was killed by police in 2004. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Operation Cocoon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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