Jayaram Padikkal

Who is Jayaram Padikkal?

R. Jayaram Padikkal was a police official in India. He had served as the Director General of Police, the highest rank in the force in the period 1993-94. In 1982 he was named the Deputy Inspector General of Police, for the state of Kerala. Earlier in his police career when he was Deputy Inspector General of Kerala police, he was accused of complicity in the torture and death of a student named Rajan at the hands of the police during the period of The Emergency. He was convicted but the conviction was overturned on appeal. He was known to maintain a good relationship with the then Kerala Chief minister K. Karunakaran

A book about his life and career, called The Crime Diary of Jayaram Padikkal, was written by Venganoor Balakrishnan in 1997. It describes him as "a notorious and controversial IPS officer from Kerala, India."