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Meet Justice DY Chandrachud And His Landmark Judgments -- From Sabrimala To Right To Privacy From verdicts on privacy to gender rights, Justice DY Chandrachur is known for his progressive views and impetus on personal liberty, rights, and privacy in his judgments. • • • • • Justice DY Chandrachud PTI Justice DY Chandrachud took oath as the 50th Chief Justice of India (CJI) on Wednesday.Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju had earlier tweeted that justiceChandrachud will be India's CJI with effect from November 8 and will take oath on November 9. Justice Chandrachud succeeded Justice UU Lalit who had a brief tenure of 74 days. Chandrachud will serve as the CJI for two years, leaving office on November 10, 2024. On October 7, the Union government wrote to Justice Lalit to recommend the name of his successor. On October 11, Lalit recommended the name of Chandrachud, paving way for his appointment as the 50th Chief Justice of India. Who is Justice Chandrachud? Elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court on May 13, 2016, Justice Chandrachud is the son of the longest serving CJI YV Chandrachud who was the head of the judiciary from February 22, 1978 to July 11, 1985. Chandrachud earlier served as the Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court from October 31, 2013 to May 12, 2016. He was a judge at the Bombay High Court from March 29, 2000 until his appointment as the Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court. Chandrachud was designated as a senior advocate by the Bombay High Court in Ju...

Express News Service NEW DELHI: Justice D Y Chandrachud was on Wednesday administered the oath of office and secrecy as the 50th Chief Justice of India (CJI) by President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan. He will have a tenure of two years till November 10, 2024, a day before he completes 65 years. With his father Y V Chandrachud being the country’s longest serving CJI (1978-1985), the new CJI also entered record books as the first father-son duo at the Supreme Court’s helm in India. Justice Chandrachud began his day at the Supreme Court by garlanding the statue of Mahatma Gandhi on the premises. He and his wife also paid tribute to the national flag in his chamber. In his first statement to the media, he said he would instill people’s faith in the SC not only by his words but also by his work. “My priority is to serve the common man, be it in terms of technology, registry and judicial reforms. We’ll consider the needs of the common man in every aspect.” ALSO READ | To lawyers who congratulating him for occupying the high office, he said, “I’ll try to make it no-stress court.” Appointed as SC judge in 2016, Justice Chandrachud overturned verdicts of his father in 2017 and 2018. In the famous Aadhaar ruling, he had struck a discordant note by dissenting with the majority and ruling that Aadhaar was unconstitutionally passed as money bill and was violative of fundamental rights. Justice Chandrachud was sworn in as the 50th Chief Justice of India by President Droupadi Mur...

The day marks as the death anniversary of former Chief Justice of India, Hon’ble Mr. Justice Y.V. Chandrachud who was born in Poona on 12-07-1920. He graduated with History and Economics in 1940 from the Elphinstone College, Bombay and had obtained his law degree in 1942 from ILS Law College, Pune. He enrolled as an advocate in High Court of Bombay in 1943. He was a part time professor of law in Government Law College, Bombay, from 1949 to 1952. He was appointed Judge, High Court Bombay, on 19-03-1961 and Judge, Supreme Court, on 28-08-1972. He was appointed the Chief Justice of India on 22-02-1978 and he was the longest serving CJI in India’s history at 7 years and 4 months and retired on 11-07-1985. His son, Hon’ble Dr. Justice D.Y. Chandrachud who is currently acting as Judge, Supreme Court recalls that he was alert till his last breath and even after retirement in 1985, he was actively involved in mediation and arbitration. He has several times mentioned as to how his father had a special place for criminal law in his heart and how the former CJI’s verdicts served a reformative role rather than only serve the “penological purpose.” A true jurist, he was known to be a liberal judge and for his path breaking judgments. His landmark judgments include: • Minerva Mills Ltd. v. Union of India[ • Gurbaksh Singh Sibbia v. State of Punjab [ • Mohd. Ahmed Khan v. Shah Bano Begum [ • Olga Tellis v. Bombay Municipal Corpn. [ • While looking at the famous judgments no one can turn ...

Justice UU Lalit completed a short but eventful tenure as the 49th Chief Justice of India., CJI Lalit did much to restore the credibility of the court, especially on the administrative side. Whether on the listing of long-pending Constitution Bench cases, ensuring fair hearing of politically sensitive cases, reducing the number of pending cases or live-streaming of hearings, the Supreme Court stands on much better footing. Had his colleagues co-operated, he would have even been able to largely fill the gap in the Supreme Court’s judge strength. All of this has been achieved in a very short tenure of just 73 days – the sixth shortest in the history of the Supreme Court. Within this short period, Justice Lalit has left behind a lasting, positive impact of reducing the gap between the Supreme Court of India and the citizens of India. That said, it does leave one wondering if Lalit had had a longer tenure, what else he would have been able to achieve, not just in the Supreme Court of India but for the judiciary at large. While judges’ retirement age is fixed in the Constitution (at sixty-five) their tenure as Chief Justices is determined to a great extent by the collegium of the Supreme Court and to a lesser extent by the Government. With Union Governments (since the Emergency) having rigorously followed the convention of appointing the Supreme Court’s senior most judge (i.e. its longest serving judge) as the CJI, the tenure of a CJI is known when they get appointed t...

Chief Justice of India U U Lalit on Tuesday recommended to the Centre the name of the senior-most Supreme Court judge Justice Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud as his successor. Justice Chandrachud, who has been part of several Constitution benches and landmark verdicts of the top court including on matters relating to the Ayodhya land dispute, right to privacy and adultery, will become the 50th CJI on November 9 once the recommendation is accepted by the government. There have been two incidents in Justice DY Chandrachud’s career when he overturned his father’s judgments. In 2017, Justice DY Chandrachud upheld the Right to Privacy as a fundamental right while setting aside a controversial order that supported the Emergency of 1975. He was one of the part of a nine-judge bench and wrote the lead verdict in the Supreme Court’s landmark judgment. His father Justice YV Chandrachud had upheld the presidential order to impose the Emergency, a period during which the Indira Gandhi-led Congress government imposed curbs on democratic rights, put several opposition leaders behind the bars and clamped down on the media. He was part of the five-judge bench which ruled in 1976 that fundamental rights can be suspended during Emergency and people cannot approach courts seeking protection of their rights. Justice HR Khanna was the only dissenting judge who had observed: "What is at stake is the rule of law...the question is whether the law speaking through the authority of the Court shall be abso...