The Indira Gandhi government invoked Article 359 to deny Indians the right to seek judicial remedy for violations of their fundamental rights. Sanjay Gandhi oversaw arbitrary arrests, torture in police custody forced sterilisation drives.
This was the decision that threw the country into the fire of emergency on Indira Gandhi's insistence. That is, to reduce one crime, Indira Gandhi thought it better and necessary to commit another crime which was even bigger than that. After this decision of Allahabad High Court which came on June 12, 1975, emergency was imposed on June 25, 1975........
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday slammed the Congress over the Emergency and said whenever democracy' is discussed, "this very sin" of Congress will be remembered.