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Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 5 (IANS) Kerala Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan Saturday
said the central government should improve intelligence sharing with the states.

Reacting to the arrest of self-styled south India chief of Pakistani militant outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba T. Nazeer and his accomplice at the India-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya early this week, Balakrishnan said the state government got the information late.

Nazeer and his accomplice Shafas both hail from Kannur district in the state.

“Sharing of intelligence information with the state government should have been done by the centre. The present attitude is not favourable,” said Balakrishnan.

Nazeer is allegedly involved in the 2005 terror attack on the Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Science in which a retired Indian Institute of Technology professor M.C. Puri was killed.

Reports suggest that during interrogation, Nazeer had disclosed his relationship with a political party in the state.

“The details of his political involvement can be found out only in the course of the investigation,” said Balakrishnan.

Meanwhile, reports have surfaced that Nazeer in the past was a member of the banned Islamic Sevak Sangh (ISS) and later was with the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) both founded by Abdul Nazir Maudany.

Nazeer is a key accused in the Kalamaserry bus burning case (of a Tamil Nadu state-run bus in 2005).

The bus was burnt after Tamil Nadu police allegedly ill-treated Maudany, who was then in the Coimbatore jail as an accused in a bomb blast case.