Background
Lawrence Fernandes was born on 1932 to John Joseph Fernandes and Alice Martha Fernandes (née Pinto), in Mangalore to a Mangalorean Catholic family.
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Lawrence Fernandes
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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. Even Lal Krishna Advani in his book mentions about torture Lawrence had to go through in jail during the Emergency. He was continuously beaten up leading to several fractures all over his body.
At the time of his release at end of the Emergency he looked like a live skeleton.
He was reduced to a mental and physical wreck in jail and after his release at the end of Emergency he lived many years as a wreck. Lawrence later said
He served as former Mayor of Banglore in 1980 and as a corporator of the Richmond Town ward before 1980.In 1987-1988 he unsuccessfully contested as a Janata Dal candidate for the Bangalore North Lok Sabha Constituency.
He died at Banglore on 14 November 2005.
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Religion
Catholic -
Political Party
Janata Dal