While praising the public statement of the four senior Supreme Court judges, who said on Friday, 12 January, that the situation in the top court was "not in order" and many "less desirable things" have taken place, senior lawyer Vrinda Grover said that these developments reminded her of Justice HR Khanna.

So what did Justice HR Khanna do?

Justice Khanna served as a judge of the Supreme Court from 1971 till 1977, which included the infamous Emergency period. Today, he is noted in legal circles around the world for his dissenting view in the ADM Jabalpur v Shiv Kant Shukla case of December 1975, in which he stood for the fundamental rights – the right to life and liberty – against all odds.