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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)
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Education, Youth Services & Sports, Hospitality & Protocol, Civil Aviation, Estates and Information portfolios. Currently he has joined back as senior security adviser in Ministry of Home Affairs in December 2018.
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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 forceâthe CRPFâafter naxals killed 75 personnel in Dantewada in 2010.
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