New Delhi:
Judge Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud has been sworn in as India’s 50th Chief Justice today. He received the oath of office by President Droupadi Murmu at a ceremony in Rashtrapati Bhavan.
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Judge Chandrachud will serve as head of the Supreme Court for two years – until November 10, 2024. He succeeds Judge Uday Umesh Lalit, who was at the top for a short term of 74 days.
Judge Chandrachud was elevated to Supreme Court Justice on May 13, 2016. He was part of several constitutional benches and landmark verdicts, including in the Ayodhya land and right to privacy dispute.
He was also part of the benches that made crucial statements about decriminalizing same-sex relationships by partially tearing down Section 377 of the IPC, the validity of the Aadhaar scheme and the Sabarimala issue.
A Justice Chandrachud-led bank had issued several orders to alleviate the misery faced by people during the Covid crisis. More recently, a bank led by him expanded the scope of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act (MTP) to include “unmarried woman”.
Justice Chandrachud is the son of the late Justice YV Chandrachud, India’s longest serving Chief Justice who stood at the top for seven years.
Interestingly, Judge Chandrachud, who would be the first Chief Justice whose father was also one, has twice quashed verdicts under the leadership of Judge YV Chandrachud.
Justice Chandrachud has a bachelor’s degree in economics from St Stephen’s College. He later completed an LLB from the University of Delhi and an LLM and a PhD from Harvard Law School in the US.
He has worked as a lawyer at the Supreme Court and the Bombay High Court, and was a visiting professor of comparative constitutional law at the University of Mumbai.
He was appointed a senior barrister by the Bombay Supreme Court in June 1998 and was made an additional solicitor general until his appointment as a judge that same year.
Judge Chandrachud was previously a judge of the Bombay Supreme Court and Chief Justice of the Allahabad Supreme Court.
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