Things came to a head on 12 June 1975 when an Allahabad High Court judge, Justice J.M.L. Sinha, found Indira Gandhi guilty of electoral misconduct in her election from Rae Bareli in the preceding election, and barred her from contesting elections for six years after unseating her. Immediately pandemonium broke out across the country and the opposition stepped up the gas. Indira Gandhi, instead of heeding the call of the opposition to resign
