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SC judges and the ghost of Emergency: The other shameful chapter

Considered one of the most shameful chapters in the history of the apex court

Supreme Court judge Justice Chelameswar along Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Madan Lokur and Kurian Joseph during a press conference in New Delhi on Friday. Photo: PTI
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Supreme Court judge Justice Chelameswar along Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Madan Lokur and Kurian Joseph during a press conference in New Delhi on Friday. Photo: PTI

Archis Mohan New Delhi
The 'ADM, Jabalpur vs Shivakant Shukla’ judgement, better known as the Habeas Corpus case, delivered by a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court at the height of the Indira Gandhi government imposed Emergency, in 1976, is considered one of the most shameful chapters in the history of the apex court.

It would seem from the statements of the four Supreme Court judges, who raised the banner of revolt on Friday afternoon against the manner in which Chief Justice of India Dipak Mishra is assigning cases, at least they do not want posterity to remember them in the same breath as four