Chief Justice Kant highlighted that demolition and rehabilitation are the “twin responsibilities” of the government in a welfare democracy. “If you [the state] want to demolish, you have to provide rehabilitation for people affected by your action. If you want to demolish an unauthorised construction, the question for the government is ‘do you also have a policy for their rehabilitation?’” The laws surrounding demolition of unauthorised structures lack even an iota of “human rights jurisprudence”, the counsel for the NGO said. The petition had urged the apex court to constitute an expert committee to formulate a uniform policy that reconciled demolition and rehabilitation.