As Alemao and Kamat, once cabinet colleagues, fight their case with loud pleas of innocence, the other politicians, many of them their colleagues, kept away from the controversy by declining to defend the two politicians when asked by the media for their comments. Most, especially those from the ruling coalition, preferred to say that the police are doing a good job. By the results so far, one would tend to agree with them. However, the expectation remains that the police would show the same efficiency every time and in all crimes. If only they would, it would not sow the doubt in the mind that there is just perhaps a little amount of political interference in this case.