On September 18, 2018, a bench of the Supreme Court of India, Justices Madan B. Lokur and Deepak Gupta, took note of 3,597 deaths in pothole-related accidents in 2017. Business Standard reported that the court described the situation as “frightening.”
In December 2018 the court returned to the subject. Scroll reported that 14,926 people had died in pothole accidents between 2013 and 2017. The court said: “Reports say that more people have died due to accident caused by potholes than the deaths in terrorists attacks.”