Death and legacy. Sanjay Gandhi died instantly from head wounds in an air crash on 23 June 1980 near Safdarjung Airport in New Delhi. He was flying a new aircraft of the Delhi Flying club, and, while performing an aerobatic maneuver over his office, lost control and crashed.
However, after Sir Samuel Griffith had accepted the first place, Sir Edmund Barton was prevailed upon to accept the second, and they, with the late Mr Justice O'Connor, were sworn in as the first High Court bench in October 1903.
Modi (far right) being sworn in as Prime Minister, in the presence of President Pranab Mukherjee (far left), 2014. Narendra Modi was sworn in as the Prime Minister of India on 26 May 2014 at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. He became the first Prime Minister born after India's independence from the United Kingdom. His first cabinet consisted of 45 ministers, 25 fewer than the previous UPA government.