Rehabilitating the riot victims was a "national liability and you have to be responsible not just legally or morally but in all dimensions of the word", said an apex court bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice Ranjana Prajash Desai.

The court said this while directing the Punjab government not to evict some petitioners who were displaced due to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots and were allegedly in illegal possession of accommodation meant for similarly-placed other riot victims.