The Supreme Court on Tuesday pulled up the Assam government heavily on the National Register of Citizens (NRC) saying that ordinary people can not trust the Assam Government on NRC.

"Forty lakh people were not included in Assam NRC means they were, prima-facie, foreigners, but tribunals declared only 52,000 as foreign and of this, the government has deported only 162." The bench asked solicitor General Tushar Mehta.

The bench headed by CJI Ranjan Gogoi said, "How can people have confidence in the Assam government? You are creating confusion."

Mehta, for his part, maintained that all those 40 lakh people left out of the NRC in Assam can't be termed as illegal immigrants. "They can be prima facie called so but the non-inclusion in NRC can't make one illegal foreigner," he submitted adding that condition of the detention centres was sub-human.