Hello, thanks for joining us for the first episode of 2023. We hope you have a great

2022 and have an even better year in 2023. We'd love to hear from you if you have a case to

suggest. Go to the suggested case page on our website, criminally listed.com. For today's

episode, we're going back to December 1978.

On December 19, 1978, former Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, whose no relation to Mahatma

Gandhi, was banned for parliament and imprisoned. Indira was the country's first and so far,

only woman prime minister. She was the daughter of India's first prime minister, Jamarhal Nehru.

Indira had served as prime minister from January 1966 to March 1977.

In June 1975, Indira was found guilty of electoral malpractices.

In response, she declared a state of emergency and had her political

opponents arrested and jailed. During the state of emergency, her son, Ravji Gandhi, started a campaign

of mass sterilization to help control the population. The state of emergency lasted 21 months.

Today, it's known as the emergency, and it's one of the most controversial times in Indian history since India gained independence.

In March 1977, the first election after the emergency, Indira Gandhi's party lost the election.

Indira failed to get elected in her own writing, meaning she wasn't even member of parliament.

By November, 1978, in the by-election, she won a seat in Parliament.

On December 19, 1978, she was accused of harassing officials in 1975.

This letter being thrown out of parliament and imprisoned.

However, imprisoning her at the opposite of fact that the opposing political party wanted.

It rallied supporters of Indira and gained sympathy from other voters.

She ended up being released from prison a week later on December 26th.

In January 1980, Indira's party won the election and she became Prime Minister for a fourth time.

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