[1] At around 9:30 PM on July 30, 2000, Veerappan attacked Rajkumar's farmhouse in Gajanur in Tamil Nadu with an armed band of 10 or 12 men.
[4] Rajkumar had travelled to Gajanur on July 27, 2000, to conduct the house-warming ceremony for a new house that he had constructed.
Based on this information, Veerappan returned to the house and also kidnapped Rajkumar's son-in-law S.A. Govindaraj, another relative, Nagesh, and Nagappa, an assistant film director.
[5] The Inspector-General of Police, Tamil Nadu, M. Balachandran and Commander of the STF, Harshavardhan Raju were at a meeting in Dimbum, 55-kilometres from Rajkumar's farmhouse in Gajanur at the time of the abduction.
[4] Based on a tip-off that Veerappan would be visiting a Hindu temple in Dimbum, they laid a trap to capture him.