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

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