ahmedabad two days before haren pandya was assassinated gujarat police had received information about two sharp shooters having sneaked into ahmedabad but it failed to act on this bit of crucial intelligencethis startling revelation about the sharp shooters was made by the state home secretary k nityanandam on thursday at an informal meeting chaired by deputy prime minister l k advani when he came visiting the city nityanandam who incidentally is a police officer on deputation to the secretariat said that intelligence had been received that two sharp shooters rafiq and jameel had arrived in the city the home secretarys statement came after advani revealed that central intelligence agencies had told him that there were celebrations in the underworld after pandyas death the underworld also said that although their prime target was protected by security a very important target as in pandya had been done away with also present at the meeting were the director general of gujarat police k chakravarthi the commissioner of ahmedabad police k r kaushik and the union minister arun jaitley among others the crucial bit of information was passed on to the cidcrime department of the gujarat policewhat exactly the department did with the information is not known the source of the intelligence is also unknown but presumably it came from the mumbai police analysts point out that obviously in the threat perception of the police haren pandya did not figure and therefore when this intelligence was received nobody thought that a security cover should be extended to him unfortunately the official apparatus has been concerned mostly with narendra modi and his security arrangement it failed to appreciate the danger to pandya and he became a sitting duck said a source he added everytime such intelligence has been received the chief ministers security is upgradedmeanwhile even as it is clear now that pandya had been shot dead by a hired killer and that the sharp shooter had been provided by the underworld at whose behest they were working is still unclear notwithstanding the celebrations in the underworld the real issue is who gave the supari and why said a senior police official analysts averred that the hired assassin may have escaped from gujarat by now he got an unexpected bonanza because for two hours nobody came forward to publicise pandyas assassination this was a long enough time to reach a place faraway from the crime scene and with the police able to get an identity kit of his only two days later the killer must have reached his home base by now said an analystmeanwhile the state government on friday announced a reward of rs one lakh for anyone providing accurate information about the murder of senior bjp leader haren pandya pandya was shot at by an unidentified person when he went for a morning walk at law garden on wednesday morning minister of state for home amit shah told the assembly while making a statement a criminal offence under relevant sections of the indian