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Karunanidhi responsible for Veerappan's continuing menace: Jaya

Maintaining that through 28 encounters, the Special Task Force (STF) had reduced Veerappan's 150-strong gang to only five members between 1991 and 1996, she said a stage had come when he was running for food and shelter.

However, after her party lost power in 1996, the Karunanidhi government called a halt to the STF operations, she told a press conference in Delhi.

"Not a single operation took place till actor Rajakumar was abducted," she said, adding this had allowed Veerappan to regroup.

"In the last one year after I took over, the STF has arrested quite a few of Veerappan's associates," she pointed out.

She ruled out granting amnesty to the brigand. "Once he is captured, he will have to face legal action and pay the penalty for all his crimes," she insisted.

She denied having received any tape from the brigand in connection with the abduction of Janata Dal leader H Nagappa.

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