Lawrence Fernandes (1932-14 November 2005) was a socialist political leader from India.
[1] During the Emergency, he was arrested on 1 May 1976[3] by the Government and brutally tortured[4] and held in illegal custody[5] before being transferred to the Bangalore Central Jail, to extract from him whereabouts of his elder brother George Fernandes.
Madhu Dandavate, who was arrested and was in the same jail wrote a letter to Indira Gandhi that he is being inhumanely tortured and may even die.
[6] Even Lal Krishna Advani in his book mentions about torture Lawrence had to go through in jail during the Emergency.
[1] In 1987-88 he unsuccessfully contested as a Janata Dal candidate for the Bangalore North Lok Sabha Constituency.