CHENNAI, April 16 -- India's most notorious poacher and sandalwood smuggler Veerappan is back in Tamil Nadu elections through his wife and daughter who are contesting from different assembly seats on tickets for two regional outfits. The two say they are fighting to restore his "pride" and claim that he was not an individual as he was projected. Veerappan, who belonged to the Vanniyar community, a major influential group in western Tamil Nadu, was killed by the state police in a forest encounter in Papparappati village in Dharmapuri district in October 2004. His daughter Vidhya Rani Veerappan, 35, a lawyer, is contesting in the Mettur assembly segment in Salem district as a candidate of Seeman-led Naam Tamilar Katchi (NTK). She made her pol...