Jamming Justice KM Joseph: Will SC protect the constitution and the court?

"It takes a lot of degeneration before a country falls into dictatorship, but we should avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings."

1,10,806 people were detained without trial during the emergency. Normally, this would go against the most fundamental of our constitutional guarantees. However, at the height of the Emergency, four judges of the Supreme Court held that an individual so detained, would have no remedy. Justice H R Khanna was the only judge that held otherwise. He knew fully well what the consequences of his decision were.  In his autobiography, Justice Khanna recalls telling his sister – “Santosh, I have prepared a judgment which is going to cost me Chief Justiceship of India.”

Saturday, 28 April marked 42 years of