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{{Infobox person
| name = R. Jayaram Padikkal
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1937|05|01|df=yes}}-->
| birth_place =[[Peruvemba]] village [[Palghat]], [[Malabar district]], [[British India]] {{flagicon|British India}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|1997|07|15|1937|05|01|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Thiruvananthapuram]], [[Kerala]], [[India]] {{flagicon|India}}
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| occupation = IPS Officer - [[Director General of Police]] (DGP)<ref name=keralapolicehistory.com/>
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'''R. Jayaram Padikkal''' was an [[Indian Police Service|IPS]] officer. He had served as the [[Director General of Police]] (DGP), the highest rank in the force in the period 1993-94.<ref name="keralapolicehistory.com">{{cite web|title=Our Chiefs till Now|url=http://www.keralapolicehistory.com/chief.html|publisher=keralapolicehistory.com|access-date=2 June 2012}}</ref>

==Early years==
Jayaram Padikkal [[I.P.S.]] was born in Peruvemba village [[Palghat]] in [[Kerala]] as the son of an Indian Army officer and had his education in Pune. He was said to be a good hockey player and a voracious reader, especially history, crime and philosophy and later joined the [[Indian Police Service]].{{fact|date=September 2019}}

In 1982 he was made the [[Deputy Inspector General of Police]] (DIG), for the state of [[Kerala]] and thus became the youngest DIG in the country.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://pages.rediff.com/jayaram-padikkal/965655#!info|title = Jayaram Padikkal - Rediff Pages : 965655}}</ref><ref name="Dept1984">{{cite book|author=Kerala (India). Vigilance Dept|title=Administration report|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z6C2AAAAIAAJ|access-date=27 May 2012|year=1984|publisher=Govt. of Kerala}}</ref> He was one of the few Indian Police officers to have received training at the [[Scotland Yard]]. He was a recipient of ''President's Police Medal''.{{fact|date=September 2019}}

== Controversy ==
When he was Deputy Inspector General (Crime Branch) of Kerala police,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/2005/10/11/stories/2005101112940300.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051214075326/http://www.hindu.com/2005/10/11/stories/2005101112940300.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 December 2005|title='Police station attack was a conspiracy'|date=11 October 2005|work=[[The Hindu]]|access-date=2 June 2012}}</ref> he and Pulikkodan Narayanan were accused of complicity in the torture and death of a student named [[Rajan case|Rajan]] at the hands of the police during the period of [[The Emergency (India)|The Emergency]]. He was convicted but the conviction was overturned on appeal.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/once-there-was-a-hero..../705882/2|title=Once there was a hero...|date=2 November 2010|work=The Indian Express|access-date=2 June 2012}}</ref> He was known to maintain a good relationship with the then Kerala Chief minister [[K. Karunakaran]].<ref name="India today">{{cite book|title=India today|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q2BDAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Jayaram+Padikkal%22|access-date=27 May 2012|year=1998|publisher=Thomson Living Media India Ltd.}}</ref><ref name="Kutty1994">{{cite book|author=K. Govindan Kutty|title=K. Karunakaran, a political biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3-NHAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Jayaram+Padikkal%22|access-date=27 May 2012|year=1994|publisher=Har-Anand Publications|isbn=9788124101797}}</ref>

In 1972, as [[Deputy superintendent of police]] at [[Thrissur]], Padikkal was involved in brutally assaulting [[Nawab Rajendran]] and destroying his press office. Its alleged that the attack was in retaliation to [[Nawab Rajendran|Nawab Rajendran's]] investigative journalism [[Scoop (news)|scoop]] against corruption done by then Home Minister [[K. Karunakaran]] in the land acquisition for setting up [[Kerala Agricultural University]] at Thrissur.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=July 20|first1=M. G. Radhakrishnan|last2=July 20|first2=1998 ISSUE DATE|last3=March 26|first3=1998UPDATED|last4=Ist|first4=2013 17:13|title=Kerala High Court serves notice on CM Karunakaran on 26-year-old corruption scandal|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/indiascope/story/19980720-kerala-high-court-serves-notice-on-cm-karunakaran-on-26-year-old-corruption-scandal-828087-1998-07-20|access-date=2021-04-04|website=India Today|language=en}}</ref>

A book about his life and career, called ''The Crime Diary of Jayaram Padikkal'', was written by Venganoor Balakrishnan in 1997.<ref name="hindu_book">{{cite news|title=From crime to spirituality|url=http://www.hindu.com/mp/2008/02/07/stories/2008020750740100.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080529152832/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2008/02/07/stories/2008020750740100.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 May 2008|access-date=27 May 2012|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=7 February 2008}}</ref> It describes him as "a notorious and controversial IPS officer from Kerala, India."<ref name="Bālakr̥ṣṇan1997">{{cite book|author=Veṅṅānūr Bālakr̥ṣṇan|title=Jayar̲āṃ Paṭikkalint̲e kr̲aiṃ ḍayari|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-grQHAAACAAJ|access-date=27 May 2012|year=1997|publisher=Dhanuṣmān Grūp ōph Pabḷikkēṣans}}</ref>
{{external media
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| image1=[http://www.keralapolicehistory.com/chiefs/p19.jpg Picture of Jayaram Padikkal], from [http://www.keralapolicehistory.com/chief.html keralapolicehistory.com] ''retrieved 2.06.2012''
}} He died in the same year, after falling ill. Before that, he was attacked by some militants on his way from [[Ernakulam Town railway station]] to his home nearby.{{Citation Needed|date=March 2019}}

==References==
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==Popular Culture==
In 2006 an experimental drama 'Ormakal Zindabad' (Memories longlive) staged in certain places in Kerala, directed by G.Ajayan based on the custodial death of Rajan. The parts of leading characters Jayaram Padikkal and Rajan were done by Salih Rawther and Shabu Madhavan respectively
[[File:Ormakal zindabad drama.jpg|thumb|Ormakal zindabad drama]]

==External links==
* [http://www.humanrights.asia/news/ahrc-news/AS-067-2006/?searchterm=rajan%20case Rajan Case from www.humanrights.asia]

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