If the constitution was a gift to the people, the judiciary was part of the gift. From its very first cases in 1950 concerning Gopalan, Brij Bhushan, Romesh Thappar, it set juristic standards for itself. These standards were upheld by Justice Sinha in 1975 to provoke Mrs Gandhi's wrath and the Emergency. The failure of these standards led India's finest judges (Bhagwati and Chandrachud) to lose their way in the Preventive Detention case (1976).