Taking note of almost 3,600 deaths reported last year alone due to potholes on roads across the country, the SC on Tuesday said it was “unfortunate” that some States were disputing the data published by the Centre on such accidental deaths. A bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta expressed “surprise” that the States were disputing the data provided by them to the MoRTH on the ground that the figures were not verified by the transport departments of the respective States.