K. Vijay Kumar

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K Vijay Kumar
The DG, CRPF, Shri K. Vijay Kumar addressing the recruits after reviewing the Passing Out- cum -Attestation Parade of 664 recruits, at RTC - AVADI, CRPF, in Chennai on August 31, 2012 (cropped).jpg
Born
Krishnan Vijay Kumar

(1952-09-15) 15 September 1952 (age 71)
Alma mater Madras Christian College
Police career
Country India
Department Indian Police Service
Service years1975 - 2012
StatusRetired
Rank Director General of Police.png Director General of Police
Awards IND President's Police Medal for Gallantry.png President’s Police Medal for Gallantry
IND President's Police Medal for Distinguished Service.png President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service
IND Police Medal for Meritorious Service.png Police Medal for Meritorious Service
Counter Insurgency Medal
Jammu & Kashmir Medal
Other work

K Vijay Kumar, IPS (born 15 September 1952), is a retired IPS officer. He was the chief of the Special Task Force of Tamil Nadu that was involved in the death of the Veerappan during Operation Cocoon of 2004. He had also been the senior advisor to Home Ministry for the Left Wing Extremism areas. He served as the Advisor to the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir [1] with Home, Forest, Ecology & Environment, Health & Medical Education, Youth Services & Sports, Hospitality & Protocol, Civil Aviation, Estates and Information portfolios. [2] Currently he has joined back as senior security adviser in Ministry of Home Affairs in December 2018.

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Early life

Vijay Kumar grew up in Tamil Nadu with six other siblings. His father M. Krishnan Nair was a retired police officer.[ citation needed ] He has bachelor's and master's degrees in law (BL and ML) from Madras University and an MBA from Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). In 2010, he also earned his master's degree in business law at National Law School of India University, Bangalore. [3]

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K Vijay Kumar

Career

Vijay Kumar joined the Indian Police Service on 10 November 1975. He served as Assistant superintendent in Pattukkottai, Trichy and Sembiam. As Superintendent of Police, he served in Dharmapuri from 1982 to 1983 and Salem from 1983 to 1985. He assisted Walter Devaram during this tenure. He served from 1985 to 1990 in the Elite Special Protection Group (SPG) with former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. In 1990, he was posted as the SP of Dindigul district followed by Vellore district in 1991. . In 1991 he along with Sanjay Arora went on to form the Special Security Group (SSG) to provide security to Former Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa. In 1997 he was posted as the first Inspector General of Police for the South Zone of Tamil Nadu after having handled the caste clashes in the southern districts. He served from 1998 to 2000 as the Inspector General, Border Security Force (BSF) Srinagar during the peak of militancy. He also served as IG (Operations), BSF before being recalled to the state to head the operations to hunt the forest brigand Veerapan. In December 2001, he was appointed Commissioner of Police for Chennai city. The highlight of his career came was when he headed the task force operation, Operation Cocoon in which Veerappan was killed in October 2004. [4]

In 2008, Vijay Kumar was chosen to head the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy in Hyderabad. [5] [6] He served as the Director-general of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) from 2010 to 2012. In December 2012, the Union government appointed him as Senior Security Adviser in Ministry of Home Affairs in Government of India. [7]

A 1975-batch IPS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre, Vijay Kumar had earlier served in the Kashmir Valley as Inspector General of BSF 1998-2001 when the border guarding force was actively involved in the counter-militancy operations. Vijay Kumar was shot to fame when he headed the Special Task Force (STF) for a long-time and strategised operations that culminated in the elimination of the dreaded sandalwood smuggler Veerappan in October 2004. He was appointed as Director General of the world's largest paramilitary force—the CRPF—after naxals killed 75 personnel in Dantewada in 2010.[ citation needed ]

In June 2018, Vijay Kumar was appointed as adviser to Governor Vohra, along with Chhattisgarh cadre IAS officer BVR Subrahmanyam. The names of advisers were cleared by the Ministry of Home Affairs in Government of India after the state was put under the Governor's rule. [8] In Dec 2019, he was appointed as senior security adviser in the Ministry of Home Affairs, where he'll consult on the security-related matters of Union Territory of JK [Jammu and Kashmir] and left wing extremism-affected states. [9]

Awards and recognitions

During his 37 years of service he has been awarded with Jammu & Kashmir Medal, Counter Insurgency Medal, Police Medal for Meritorious Service in 1993, President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service in 1999 and President’s Police Medal for Gallantry on 58th Independence Day in 2005 (for his role in catching Veerappan). [10]

In 2013, Kannada film Attahasa based on the life and death of Veerappan, the role of Vijay Kumar was played by Arjun Sarja, and in 2016 the role was essayed by K. S. Sridhar in Killing Veerappan.[ citation needed ]

Book

His book Veerappan: Chasing the Brigand ( ISBN   978-81-291-4530-7) gives an account of the rise and fall of Veerappan. The last section details about the Operation Cocoon.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. ↑ PTI (6 December 2019). "K Vijay Kumar is senior security advisor in Union Home Ministry". @businessline. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  2. ↑ "Present Advisors to Governor". Government of Jammu and Kashmir. 1 June 2019. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  3. ↑ The Times Of India Bangalore; 6 September 2010; Education Times; Page: 32 ‘Great to be a student again’
  4. ↑ "Veerappan shot dead". The Hindu . 18 October 2004. Archived from the original on 20 October 2004. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
  5. ↑ "Vijay Kumar chosen to head National Police Academy". The Hindu . 1 December 2008. Archived from the original on 1 December 2008. Retrieved 24 May 2010.
  6. ↑ "Thiru K Vijay Kumar IPS, the Chief of the STF called on the Hon'ble Chief Minister at Secretariat". Government of Tamil Nadu. 21 October 2004. Retrieved 24 May 2010.
  7. ↑ "Vijay Kumar appointed Senior Security Adviser in Home Ministry". The Hindu. 12 December 2012. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
  8. ↑ "Governor NN Vohra takes charge of Jammu and Kashmir; former top cop Vijay Kumar made his adviser". The News Minute. 20 June 2018.
  9. ↑ Scroll Staff. "Former IPS officer K Vijay Kumar appointed senior security adviser in home ministry". Scroll.in. Retrieved 16 February 2022.
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