18 Jan 1952 |
Kuse Muniswamy Veerappan Gounder born, Gopinatham Village, Karnataka, India. |
? |
Younger brother, Arjunan, born. |
c. 1969 |
Commits first murder at age 17. |
1972 |
Arrested for the first time. |
1973 |
Muthulakshmi born, village of Neruppur (near Hogenekal.) |
1986 |
Arrested, released after he pays $2000 bribe. |
c. 1991 |
Marries shepherdess Muthulakshmi. What she sees in him? "His moustache and notoriety." |
Nov 1991 |
Beheads Deputy Conservator of Forests Srinivas after offering to surrender. |
c. 1992 |
First daughter, Vidhyarani, born. |
1992 |
Presumably, the last time Veerappan sees his wife Muthulakshmi (in hiding ever since.) |
1992 |
Second daugther, Prabha (alias Vijayalakshmi) born, Kaveripuram, near Mettur. |
Feb 1992 |
Underling, Gurunathan, killed by task force. |
14 Aug 1992 |
Kills five Karnataka police, including Superintendent of Police Harikrishna, near Kollegal. Two months later, eight of Veerappan's men are killed in a firefight, but he manages to elude capture. |
13 Apr 1993 |
Special Task Force instituted by Karnataka government against Veerappan. |
May 1993 |
Interview with a news magazine, Veerappan recounts cutting enemies to pieces and feeding them to fish in the Cauvery river. The Independent. |
May 1993 |
Wife Muthulakshmi arrested. |
Jul 1993 |
Strangles his newly born female infant, because it is the third female in a row. |
Jan 1994 |
Underling, Kolandai, suicides. |
Dec 1994 |
Brother, Arjunan, surrenders to police, along with associates Ayyadurai and Rangaswamy. Authorities claim Arjunan swallowed a cyanide capsule. |
1995 |
Brother, Arjunan, dies while in task force custody. Rangaswamy also dies in custody. |
1996 |
Records nine hours of videotape interview, later aired on Sun TV. |
Jun 1996 |
Offers to surrender to the president of India, in exchange for amnesty. |
13 Jul 1997 |
Kidnaps nine officials of the forestry service, holds them for 44 days. |
Aug 1997 |
Offers to surrender, in exchange for two year sentence and 5 million rupees in compensation. |
30 Jul 2000 |
Veerappan kidnaps India's top movie star, Rajkumar. |
14 Nov 2000 |
Rajkumar released to the custody of P. Nedumaran, in Muzhiyanur. |
16 Nov 2000 |
Newly ransomed Rajkumar arrives in Bangalore. |
8 Mar 2002 |
Wife applies for birth certificate for daughter Prabha, in a Mettur court. |
Mar 2002 |
Wife Muthulakshmi arrested again, over the Rajkumar kidnapping. |
25 Aug 2002 |
Kidnaps former regional minister H. Nagappa. The minster's body is not found until December. |
18 Oct 2004 |
Veerappan is killed by Indian police during a shootout in Paparapatti, Tamil Nadu, India, about 75 miles southeast of Bangalore. |