Back to basics

Of the innumerable  serious crimes in the nation,the Talwar's have come into exceptional prominence. And what do we find .Every ' Don't ' of investigative methodology has been scrupulously followed.It requires tenacity and sticking to the basics to investigate and  reconstruct a difficult crime. Perhaps the grounding in forensics of the average police officer remains outdated .The intrusion by media ,the fouling up of evidence at the scene of crime and so on is a result of an unsure chief investigator who is easily distracted and lacks focus and control over the essentials of the many  crime components.If the first team on the scene is found wanting any subsequent investigator is heavily handicapped.This twin murder case was thus substantially  lost to a genuine solution in the first 24 hours itself.What followed was dictated more by extraneous circumstances than intuitive brilliance or forensic acumen.