The Narendra Modi government on Monday said compensation to religious structures damaged in the 2002 riots would be against the tenets of secular governance and justified its stand in the Supreme Court by saying it had given no grant for repair of such structures damaged by the 2001 earthquake. Additional advocate general Tushar Mehta told a bench of Justices K S Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra that the state's policy did not permit use of public funds for repair and reconstruction of religious structures.