1. <My own take is that far from being off the mark, Fredrick has raisedseveral pertinent points in his column. The Scarlette issue was indeedblown out of proportion and **to suggest, as Dr Anand tries to do, thatthe publicity given to this sad death was because the Police made ahash of the initial investigations would be to fly in the face offacts.**>[Sandeep Heble]
Unless I am missing something, there is a disconnect between this observation and the one immediately following: 2. <**When, may I ask, have the Police performed their tasks andduties diligently when the victim has not been an influential personor a celebrity?Scarlette's case is not the first time the Police have goofed up orbungled and this certainly won't be the last.**> This seems to confirm that the "police made a hash of the case" the point which was blatantly overlooked in the Noronha column . 3.<Scarlette's case is not the first time the Police have goofed up orbungled and this certainly won't be the last. The rate of convictione in Goa is abysmally poor and the Criminal Courts have onseveral occasions passed all kinds of strictures against the Police,for similar if not worse kinds of goof-ups and bunglings. **The Policeforce in the State literally stinks**> This taken with the next excerpt underlines the extent of the bungling in the Goa police force. It is clearly systemic and the Scarlet case is not an isolated one by any means. It is deeprooted and pervasive, spanning several administrations, not just the current one. 4. < I may be accused now of trying to paint the entire Police force withthe same tainted brush but 9 out of 10 would say pretty much the samething. Honesty, dedication and sincerity are words that just don'tseem to exist in the dictionaries of the Police force though **therewould be the few stray exceptions, Bosco George, the SP who handledthe Scarlette murder, being one of them.**> This seems to be an (inadvertent) attempt to whitewash the Scarlet case by implying that it is being handled by an upright police officer. The question is whether he was handling it since inception or it was handed over to him after bungling by his predecessor on this particular case.
