My phone bugged by police: Top NSS leader

Adding a new dimension to the current round of flare-up in factionalism in the Congress in Kerala, general secretary of the Nair community outfit NSS, G Sukumaran Nair, today alleged that his phone had been tapped by the intelligence wing of the state police.
Nair also alleged that though he had brought this to the notice of Home Minister Thiruvanchur Radhakrishnan, no step had been taken on his complaint.
Radhakrishnan, however, denied the NSS leader's charge.
"Tapping phone conversations is illegal and violation of human rights," Nair told reporters at the NSS headquarters at Perunna near here.
An influential community outfit, NSS, has of late, been strident in its attack on the Oommen Chandy government alleging that the interests of the majority community had been neglected by it, a charge denied by the chief minister.

A few months ago, the NSS leader had made an open call to install Chennithala in a "key position" in the ministry but Chennithala himself has taken a critical view of the NSS attaching the "Nair tag" to him.