In its details, the abduction and savage murder of businessman Farouk Kalamadeen pose the same searing questions that the state, the government and the people have faced repeatedly since 2002. As always the major question relates to the performance of the police force.
When he was snatched on April 2, the police had no clue about what transpired. There were revolving-door arrests in the days that followed but no breakthrough. For a force that should have been on heightened alert following the two massacres and other abominations this was an extremely poor performance.
