Iconic Emergency-era image of Fernandes adorns living room, casket mounted with wreaths

George Fernandes in handcuffs raising his hand in defiance is one of the most enduring photographs of the Emergency era and a portrait of that iconic image adorns a corner of a room at his home where his body lies in a glass casket.

The oil painting in black and white is surmounted by a board that bears the message -- 'A Leader for Every Indian - George Fernandes' -- while flower petals lay showered beneath that frame kept on a table.

A host of leaders and admirers sat next to that image to pen their tribute in words in a journal kept next to bowls of flower petals.

Padmanabh Shetty, who was one of the persons arrested, along with Fernandes, in what is known as the Baroda Dynamite case, was among the visitors, who streamed at his house in Panchsheel Park, to pay their tribute to the departed leader.

Pointing to the portrait, Shetty said, "George Fernandes in handcuffs raising his hand in defiance, while he was being produced at the Tees Hazari court in Delhi for the trial, is one of .