Police is incompetent or purposely has delayed investigation. Zane or his girlfriend could easily have been persuaded to pinpoint/ replicate the exact act and location on day one! It may not even be in the river which could be a red herring. Anyway that should not be so important with the witnesses and evidence available for swift justice if the police have the will!
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Stephen Dias <[email protected]>wrote: > To, > > The Editor > > Goanet > > Dear Sir, > > > > I request you that you please publish my letter in your Letters to the > Editor column. > > Regards > > > > Stephen Dias > > D.Paula] mob: 9422443110 > > (Former Scientist of NIO) > > Date: 18.5.2014 > > > > > > SEARCH FOR A SWORD IN MANDOVI ? > > > > The sword attack on Raju Sarin and Rafael de Costa by Zaine Almeida at the > “Down the Road” pub and restaurant near the Ourem Bridge, the prosecution > is requesting the Indian Navy to get the weapon traced which is thrown from > the Mandovi Bridge by Zaine Almeida. > > The Navy has not yet taken any steps to carry out the search which is now, > nearly two weeks. > > This weapon is a tiny one and considering the sea under currents and the > pre-monsoon waves, the survey investigation by any agency will not give any > concrete results. > > The exact location of the weapon position is also not known by the > investigating authorities. Whoever is entrusted the job whether Navy, NIO > or any agency one has to run full line kilometer parallel to > the Mandovi Bridge with all kind of underwater equipment including > underwater camera and underwater detector, side scan sonar and magnetic > etc. This search could have been a bit easy if the survey was conducted > immediately within one or two days time and the diver could have done > himself this job. The detector instrument detects only if the sediment is > not accumulated intensely on the weapon. The sea undercurrent must have > dragged this weapon much deeper and away from the area known to Zaine > himself. > > As an instrumentation expert in underwater surveys which we (NIO) team have > carried out for a search of GOLD dumped by smugglers at Kosikad at > Mangalore, could not achieve any results although they have told us within > a week’s time. Though this amount of gold was in one small box, and much > bigger than this sword, still we could not trace it with our sophisticated > instrument and expertise technicians and scientists from NIO. > > Now that the Navy appears to be in dilemma and I am sure they will not be > in position to detect with their equipment because of the sea current and > pre monsoon waves as the weapon is already been buried much deeper. > > I suppose that the Navy has to follow, lots of formalities to get the > clearance from their headquarters and for such a minuscule job and it is > not advisable to bring their sophisticated equipment from their pavilion. > > > > Stephen Dias > > D.Paula > > (Former Scientist from NIO) >
