Thimmappaiah Madiyal | |
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Born | |
Nationality | Indian |
Occupation | Retired Police Officer |
T. Madiyal (Thimmappaiah Madiyal) was a former Director-General and Inspector-General of Police of State of Karnataka, India. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Madiyal hails from Alike village [3] in Bantwal taluk near Mangalore and did his graduation in St Philomena's College in Mysore. [1] He is a Havyaka Brahmin. He was Dg & IGP
He joined the army as a commissioned officer in 1964. He took part in the Indo-Pak war in 1965 and later joined the elite Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1971. [3]
He began his career as assistant superintendent of police in Yadgir sub-division, Gulbarga district. He later worked as SP of Bellary, Belgaum and Mysore districts. [1]
He had an eight-year stint in the Special Protection Group, New Delhi, serving Rajiv Gandhi and his family between 1983 and 1991 in the aftermath of Indira Gandhi's assassination. [1]
As an IGP, he had served KSRP and other departments. He was also worked as an Intelligence Chief of State of Karnataka. He later served as ADGP (Law & Order) and Bangalore City Police Commissioner. On promotion as DGP, he was posted to head the Corps of Detectives (CoD) in November 2001. [1]
He retired from the post of The Director-General and Inspector-General of Police of the State of Karnataka in June 2004. [2]
After retirement, he served as an Administrator of Shree Ramachandrapura Math headed by Shree Raghaveshwara Bharathi Swamiji and served voluntarily for several years. [6]
In Dec 2012, he joined an informal group of eminent persons as an "apolitical struggle to strengthen democracy". [7]