Christopher Nelson is a retired

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and comes from

Nagercoil Nagercoil, also spelt as Nagarkovil ("Temple of the Nāgas", or Nagaraja-Temple), is a city and the administrative headquarters of Kanyakumari District in Tamil Nadu state, India. Situated close to the tip of the Indian peninsula, it lies on an ...

in the Indian state of

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. A postgraduate who studied economics, Nelson retired from policing in 2011 and was appointed as a full-time member of the Tamil Nadu Planning Commission. He had held the rank of

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in the police. He has denied allegations that he was present at the controversial arrest of M. K. Karunanidhi, the then chief minister of Tamil Nadu, in 2001.

Achievements

He was awarded the

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in 1995. In September 2012 he was appointed an Information Commissioner for Tamil Nadu by the state's government.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nelson, Christopher Living people People from Kanyakumari district Indian Police Service officers Year of birth missing (living people) People from Nagercoil