Encounter specialist Velladurai back in city
Additional Superintendent of Police (ADSP) S Velladurai, who is known to be an encounter specialist, is back in the Chennai city police. He came to prominence after he killed notorious gangster Ayodhyakuppam Veeramani on the sands of the Marina more than 15 years ago.
By : migrator
Update: 2019-02-18 23:56 GMT
Chennai
Velladurai, who was serving as the Additional Superintendent of Police (Prohibition Enforcement Wing), Ramanathapuram, has been posted as Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, Estate Welfare and Community Policing, Chennai police. He was transferred along with 15 other officers in the rank of ADSP.
The officer has been closely associated with the encounter killings that happened in different districts in the last two decades. He was also a member of Special Task Force of the Tamil Nadu police, that hunted down forest brigand Veerappan in 2004.
“He was linked to encounters happened in Tiruchy in the late 90s. In Chennai, he was part of the team that gunned down gangster Veeramani in 2003 when K Vijay Kumar was the Commissioner of Police and JK Tripathy was the Joint Commissioner.
Later, he went to be part of STF, under the same officer, that gunned down Veerappan,” the police sources noted. He was also part of the police team that killed two suspects in an encounter in Madurai.
However, a senior police official clarified that there is no encounter mission in the city for Velladurai. “It is a routine election-related transfer,” he added.
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