In 1975, the Supreme Court issued notice to the Center while listening to a petition declaring the state of emergency as “completely unconstitutional”. In fact, a 94-year-old widow recently urged the Supreme Court to declare the state of emergency in 1975 as unconstitutional. At the same time, she has tried to cover the sum of Rs 25 crores by setting the liability on the authorities concerned for the plunder of her husband’s uncountable wealth which contains precious gems.
In September this year, the petition filed by Veera Sarin had also been made a party to the Home Ministry. For more than four decades, the Supreme Court has sought redress for her and her children. The woman currently lives in Dehradun with her daughter. In 1957, she married Carol Bagh and HK Sarin, a flourishing art and gem business in Connaught Place.
Immediately after the Emergency was declared in June 1975, Sarin’s commercial premises were raided and seized with valuables, jewelery and artifacts suspected of violating the Customs Act. The applicant’s husband was arrested under the Foreign Exchange Protection and Trafficking Prevention Act (COFPOS). Officials were constantly asking him to leave the country leaving his movable and immovable property. Later, the petitioner and his children went abroad because most of their goods and property were confiscated.
In the petition, ‘the applicant has a genuine desire to end the so-called‘ emergency ’, an anti-democratic nightmare. This is possible only with the consent and declaration of the Supreme Court. ‘The petition sought to declare the state of emergency unconstitutional.
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