India’s fiftieth CJI: Senior-most Supreme Court decide and CJI-designate Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud is all set to grow to be the fiftieth head of the Indian judiciary in the present day when President Draupadi Murmu would administer the oath of workplace to him at Rashtrapati Bhawan.
His illustrious father YV Chandrachud was the longest-serving Chief Justice of India (CJI) and remained on the helm from February 22, 1978 to July 11, 1985.
Justice Chandrachud will function the CJI for 2 years until November 10, 2024. Supreme Court judges retire on the age of 65.
He succeeds Uday Umesh Lalit, who had really useful him as his successor to the Centre on October 11. President Draupadi Murmu had appointed him as the subsequent CJI on October 17.
Justice Chandrachud, born on November 11, 1959, was elevated to the highest courtroom on May 13, 2016.
He has been a part of a number of Constitution benches and landmark verdicts of the highest courtroom together with on issues regarding the Ayodhya land dispute, the suitable to privateness and adultery.
Justice Chandrachud was additionally a part of the benches which delivered path-breaking judgements on decriminalising same-sex relations after it partially struck down Section 377 of the IPC, the validity of the Aadhaar scheme and the Sabarimala subject.
Recently, a bench headed by him expanded the scope of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act and the corresponding guidelines to incorporate single girls for abortion between 20-24 weeks of being pregnant.
The Justice Chandrachud-led bench had additionally handed a number of instructions to assuage the miseries confronted by individuals in the course of the COVID-19 disaster, terming the brutal second wave of the pandemic final 12 months as a “national crisis”.
Recently, he was among the many two judges of the apex courtroom Collegium which had objected to the strategy of “circulation” adopted for eliciting the views of its members on the appointment of judges to the highest courtroom.
He was a decide of the Bombay High Court from March 29, 2000 till his appointment because the Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court on October 31, 2013.
Justice Chandrachud was designated as a senior advocate by the Bombay High Court in June 1998 and have become Additional Solicitor General in the identical 12 months until his appointment as a decide.
After finishing his BA with Honours in Economics from St Stephen’s College, New Delhi, Justice Chandrachud did his LLB from Campus Law Centre, Delhi University, and obtained an LLM diploma and a Doctorate in Juridical Sciences (SJD) from Harvard Law School, USA.
He practised regulation on the Supreme Court and the Bombay High Court and was a visiting professor of comparative Constitutional regulation on the University of Mumbai.
(With inputs from PTI)
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