Presumably, your question is about the famous trial of Gandhi in 1922, for charges of sedition. The case pertained to activists attacking a police station in Chauri Chaura. Gandhi was blamed as an instigator of the people's violence.
The options, as Gandhi put it in his statement to the presiding judge, was this: "The only course open to you, Mr. Judge, is . . . either to resign your post or inflict on me the severest penalty.”
He admitted he was guilty of the charges against him, explaining, "I had either to submit to a system which I considered had done an irreparable harm to my country, or incur the risk of the mad fury of my people bursting forth, when they understood the truth from my lips.”
He said the judge, too, had a choice, to resign his post and dissasociate himself from evil, if he felt the law and system was perpetrating evil. But he also knew that was likely impossible for the judge to do, so he expected to face the full penalty of the law. He said to the court: "“I have come to the conclusion that it is impossible for me to dissociate myself from the diabolical crimes of Chauri Chaura . . . I know that my people have sometimes gone mad. I am deeply sorry for it; and I am, therefore, here to submit not to a light penalty but to the highest penalty."
The judge sentenced Gandhi to six years' imprisonment, but in doing so also stated, "You are in a different category from any person I have ever tried or am likely ever to try."