[1]India’s top cop K. Vijay Kumar, all set to retire as director general of Central Reserve Police Force, will turn into a thriller writer in the coming months. “After retirement, I am planning to write a fiction based on forest brigand Veerappan’s encounter,” he said during an exclusive chat with this newspaper on Wednesday while visiting the city.
“I have more than 1,000 pages of material with me. I will have to regroup my thoughts and turn it into a fiction of 300 pages, which would be enjoyed by common readers. I don’t want it to read like a police memoir,” he said.
Mr Vijay Kumar shot to national fame when his special task force of Tamil Nadu police gunned down the dreaded sandalwood smuggler in October 2004. The Tamil Nadu police had been hunting for him for years until Mr Vijay Kumar’s team eliminated him.
Mr Vijay Kumar, who turned 60 this month, was a well-known name in Chennai when he was the city police commissioner a decade back and his teams eliminated many notorious history-sheeters, including Ayothikuppam Veeramani, in the city. From the city, he went straight to the Sathyamangalam jungles to hunt down Veerappan.
Later, he went on to head Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel national police academy in Hyderabad where IPS trainees are trained. “I managed to add certain outdoor training and tactical training in the curriculum for freshers at the academy. In the last two years in CRPF also we managed to add new training manuals,” he pointed out.
The officer, spearheading the fight against naxals in the central and eastern regions of the country, feels that the government should provide security and development to the common people to check the naxal menace.
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