Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on September 27 charged the Karnataka government with adopting a "non-co-operative" attitude in nabbing forest brigand Veerappan.

"After the meeting of the Karnataka Chief Minister S M Krishna with me at New Delhi, there is no official information or sharing of information by Karnataka. We are ready to co-operate with Karnataka on this. Karnataka is not taking us into confidence," she told a press conference on September 27 evening.

She said if Veerappan came to Tamil Nadu, he would be nabbed by the state Special Task Force (STF). "But at the moment, he is in the forests of Karnataka," she said.

On the Cauvery issue, she said that the state was pinning its hopes on the Supreme Court, which would be hearing the contempt petition filed by Tamil Nadu on September 30.

The state did not participate in the recent Cauvery Monitoring Committee meeting at Bangalore as the state's legal advisors had stated that the participation was sub- judice, she said.

She said that permanent solution to the Cauvery dispute was the nationalisation of rivers and linking Ganga with Cauvery. The Centre should have a "political will" to do this, she said.

PTI