<span style="color: #222222;">The last rites of Lakshadweep Administrator Dineshwar Sharma were performed with full state honours at Gaya in Bihar yesterday.<br />''<br />'' Sharma passed away on Friday at the age of 66 at a Chennai hospital due to a lung-related ailment.<br />'' <br />'' A 1976-batch IPS officer of Kerala cadre, Sharma also served as Director of Intelligence Bureau from 2014 to 2017.<br />''<br />''He had also served as interlocutor for Jammu and Kashmir.</span>