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Portrait of Justice Jagmohanlal Sinha

Jagmohanlal Sinha (12 May 1920 – 20 March 2008) was an Indian judge who served in the Allahabad High Court. He is best known for his 1975 ruling in the State of Uttar Pradesh v. Raj Narain lawsuit in which he invalidated the election of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

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Profile at Allahabad High Court
"Justice Sinha, who set aside Indira Gandhi’s election, dies at 87", Expressindia at the Wayback Machine (archived 9 March 2012)
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v t e The Emergency of 1975–1977
Personalities	Atal Bihari Vajpayee Basawon Singh (Sinha) Bansi Lal C. Achutha Menon Charan Singh Devakanta Barua Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed George Fernandes Hans Raj Khanna Harchand Singh Longowal H. N. Bahuguna Indira Gandhi Jagjivan Ram Jagmohan Jagmohanlal Sinha Jayaprakash Narayan Jivatram Kripalani K. Kamaraj K. Karunakaran Lal Krishna Advani M. G. Ramachandran M. Karunanidhi Morarji Desai Narendra Modi Neelam Sanjiva Reddy Niren De Pranab Mukherjee Raj Narain Sanjay Gandhi Siddhartha Shankar Ray Zail Singh
Organisations	Bharatiya Jana Sangh Bharatiya Lok Dal Communist Party of India (Marxist) Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Dravidar Kazhagam Indian National Congress (Organisation) Indian National Congress (R) Indian National Congress Janata Morcha Janata Party People's Union for Civil Liberties Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Shiromani Akali Dal Socialist Party of India Swatantra Party
Events	State of Emergency in India State of Uttar Pradesh v. Raj Narain 38th Amendment 39th Amendment 42nd Amendment Turkman gate demolition and rioting Baroda dynamite case Shah Commission Maintenance of Internal Security Act Rajan case Indian general election, 1977

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 '''Jagmohanlal Sinha''' (12 May 1920 – 20 March 2008) was an Indian judge who served in the [[Allahabad High Court]]. He is best known for his 1975 ruling in the ''[[State of Uttar Pradesh v. Raj Narain]]'' lawsuit in which he invalidated the election of Prime Minister [[Indira Gandhi]].
-==Raj Narain case==
-Jagmohanlal Sinha presided over the election petition Number Five filed by petitioner [[Raj Narain]] against Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister of India, in 1971.{{Citation needed|date= August 2018}} The petition challenged her election to the [[Lok Sabha]] in 1971 from the [[Rae Bareli]] parliamentary constituency in Uttar Pradesh, which Narain had also contested.{{Citation needed|date= August 2018}}
-Hearing the case took more than four years.{{Citation needed|date= August 2018}} The case concluded on 23 May 1975 but the judgement was not announced immediately.{{Citation needed|date= August 2018}} On 12 June 1975, Sinha read only the operative part of his judgement. The judgement in itself ran to 258 pages.{{Citation needed|date= August 2018}} Gandhi was declared guilty of corrupt practices and her election to the Lok Sabha was declared null and void. She was charged under Section 123(7) of the [[Representation of the People Act (India)|Representation of the People Act]]. She was also disqualified from contesting elections for six years.{{Citation needed|date= August 2018}}
-Within 13 days of the judgement, Gandhi declared a state of [[The Emergency (India)|Emergency]] on the nation.{{Citation needed|date= August 2018}} The ruling became the primary reason for its imposition. Subsequently, Gandhi used the opportunity to change the law which allowed her to [[rule by decree]]. She suspended freedom and liberties and brought Indian democracy to a halt. Consequently, in March 1977, Gandhi and her Congress party were routed in the elections. This ended the uninterrupted rule of Congress over India.{{Citation needed|date= August 2018}}
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