At about 10 am on September 24, 1951, Hucheshwar Gurusidha Mudgal stood up to clear his name in Parliament. Mudgal was a member of the Provisional Parliament, the national legislature that preceded the first elected Lok Sabha in 1952.
September had been a busy month for this law-making body. It had been discussing key legislation, like the Hindu Code Bill, among other legislative and parliamentary business.