The Bombay High Court's Panaji bench on Monday passed strictures against the Goa Police for casual and apathetic investigations into crimes involving sexual offences against women and children.

In an order passed on Monday, acquitting carpenter shop worker in a sexual assault case, a bench comprising of Justices M.S. Sonak and M.S. Jawalkar also directed the state Director General of Police to conduct a probe into the lapses in investigation of crimes, where victims are women and children.