Senior police officers on Friday recalled that C. Vijayakumar, Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Coimbatore Range, who allegedly shot himself to death on Friday, was a self-made officer who excelled in all the tasks assigned to him.
Two years after joining the force as a Deputy Superintendent of Police by clearing the TNPSC Group I examination, Vijayakumar was roped into the special team of the Tamil Nadu police that launched an operation to crack down on the notorious Bawaria gang, which specialised in organised dacoity and robbery, in 2005.
As a DSP, Vijayakumar was part of the meticulously planned operation of the Tamil Nadu police that led to the gunning down of two members of the gang in Uttar Pradesh and the arrest of the others. The operation was launched soon after the murder of AIADMK Gummidipoondi MLA K. Sudarsanam in January 2005.
