The two sentences preceding the last two sentences of the Editorial ``Probing the allegations'' (March 19)read as under: ``Mr. Fernandes' lengthy and emotional defence on television is unconvincing because it fails to answer the fundamental questions. How the man he personally selected as his party's treasurer could brag of firing specific defence deals, why bundles of notes were accepted at his official residence from someone posing as an arms seller and how the Ministry he presided over could be so easily penetrated by middlemen and a couple of investigative journalists''.
Through these, you have conveyed to the readers through the editorial the astonishing piece of information that ``bundles of notes were accepted'' at the official residence of the Defence Minister - something which has not been reported. What has been shown in the tapes and reported in TheHinduis that Ms. Jaya Jaitly, Samata party president, was seen talking to the investigative journalists posing as arms dealers at the Defence Minister's official residence and at one time, when they offered a donation to the party, they were told to give it to the party office-bearer, Mr. Srinivasa Prasada.
Unlike in Mr. Bangaru Laxman's residence where bundles of notes were seen being accepted by him and put away, nowhere has it been seen or reported that bundles of notes passed hands at the Defence Minister's residence. Offer of money and its acceptance in so many words is one thing, actual delivery of bundles of notes and their acceptance is another.
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