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By R. Krishna Kumar
This was decided at a high-level meeting of top STF officials held at the Gundal STF Camp near Kamagere in Kollegal taluk in Chamarajanagar district today. Senior officials discussed the strategy. The Karnataka Home Minister, Mallikarjuna Kharge, presided over the meeting. The Director-General and Inspector-General of Police, Karnataka V.V.Bhaskar, Jyothi Prakash Mirgi, IGP, the Additional DG (Law and Order), Subhash Bharani, the Karnataka and Tamil Nadu STF chief, R.P. Sharma and Nataraj, attended the meeting. The Karnataka STF today stepped up the combing operations and fanned out across M.M.Hills, Bundal, Burude and the adjoining forest ranges. Sources said that about 500 STF personnel had been deployed around Palar, Ponnachi, Ramapura, and the M.M.Hills along with the regular STF units stationed in these places even as additional forces were roped in. This was apart from the 40 units pressed into service within hours of Veerappan abducting the former Minister, Nagappa, on Sunday. In a significant development, the former chief of the Karnataka STF, Kempaiah — whose removal the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa , said had emboldened Veerappan — reached Kollegal last evening to be part of combing operations. Three officials of the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police, who were part of the crack team under Mr. Kempaiah, have also been recalled. They include Mandappa, Thammaiah, Maadappa and Bommnal, all of whom were shifted out of the STF. I was cheated: Veerappan Our Bangalore Staff Reporter writes: The contents of the audio cassette sent by Veerappan were made public here today. In the tape addressed to the Karnataka Chief Minister, S.M. Krishna, Veerappan has threatened that he would kill Mr. Nagappa if the STF tried to nab him and his associates. In the cassette, which barely runs for 40 seconds, Veerappan said Mr. Krishna and the former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M. Karunanidhi, had "cheated" him by not fulfilling the promises they had made when the Kannada thespian, Rajkumar, was abducted. The elusive bandit has also demanded the release of his "well wishers" who are in jail. However, he has not mentioned any name. He has also said that he would send another cassette in a week, and this indicates that the kidnap saga will drag on for some days, sources said.
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