♤ Protests, strikes and public agitations were not allowed.

♤ Fundamental right of constitutional remedies to move the court for restoring their fundamental rights to got suspended.

♤ Religious and cultural organisations like R.S.S., Jamait-E-Islami were banned on the apprehension of disturbance to social and communal harmony.

♤ Government misused the provision of preventive detention, arrested the political workers of opposition parties. Under preventive detention arrested persons can't challenge such move as right to constitutional remedies gets suspended.

♤ Due to such harsh conditions during emergency regime, people who were awarded with honours like Padma shri and other awards returned these honours in the protest against suspension of democracy.

♤ Torture and custodial deaths occurred during Emergency, arbitrary relocation of poor people, imposition of compulsory sterilisation to control population.

♤ People without official position, misused the powers of administration and interfered in the functioning of the government.