: His gang was responsible for poaching approximately 2,000 elephants for ivory and smuggling millions of dollars worth of sandalwood .

Veerappan’s criminal career was marked by extreme violence and high-profile targets:

: He is linked to the deaths of over 120 to 184 people , including police officers and high-ranking forest officials. He reportedly killed his first tusker at age 10 and his first human at 17.