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On June 25,1975, the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed a national emergency that's been termed the darkest day of Indian democracy.
During the 1975 emergency, opposition leaders were arrested, elections were postponed, anti-government protests were crushed and press was censored. Some laws were also rewritten to suit the then congress government.
The Shah Commission estimated that nearly 1,11,000 people were arrested under preventive detention laws. Torture in police custody and custodial deaths also occurred during Emergency.
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