’Judgment of great courage’: CJI on Allahabad HC’s 1975 verdict disqualifying then PM Indira Gandhi
3 years, 3 months ago

’Judgment of great courage’: CJI on Allahabad HC’s 1975 verdict disqualifying then PM Indira Gandhi

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The 1975 verdict by Justice Jagmohanlal Sinha of the Allahabad High Court disqualifying then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was a judgment of “great courage”, said Chief Justice of India NV Ramana on Saturday. “In 1975, it was Justice Jagmohanlal Sinha from the Allahabad High Court who passed the judgment that shook the nation, when he disqualified Smt. Ramana, along with President Ram Nath Kovind, was taking part in programmes, including the foundation stone-laying ceremony of the Uttar Pradesh National Law University and a new building complex of the Allahabad High Cour. The 12 June 1975, verdict delivered by Justice Jagmohanlal Sinha of the Allahabad High Court had convicted the then prime minister of electoral malpractices and debarred her from holding any elected post under the Representative of Peoples Act.

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