New Delhi: Justice Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud has been appointed because the fiftieth Chief Justice of India (CJI) and can take over on November 9. He will function the chief of the expansive Indian judicial system for 2 years until November 10, 2024. Chandrachud will exchange CJI Uday Umesh Lalit who had beneficial him as his successor on Oct 11. Chandrachud carries on his father Y V Chandrachud’s legacy who had served as CJI between 1978 to 1985. D Y Chandrachud has been a component of a number of landmark judgements such because the decriminalisation of same-sex relationships. With his unconventional and progressive viewpoint, he has even overturned a couple of judgements made by his father previously. For occasion, he deemed the offence of adultery unconstitutional.
fiftieth CJI: Who is DY Chandrachud?
Born on November 11, 1959, Justice Chandrachud is the senior-most Supreme Court choose. He was elevated to the highest courtroom on May 13, 2016. In a current dialog with legislation college students, Chandrachud suggested imbibing a feminist strategy of their careers. This recommendation comes after the SC bench that he was a component of prolonged the fitting to secure and authorized abortion as much as 24 weeks to single and single girls.
Also Read:Â Justice DY Chandrachud to be next Chief Justice of India, to take oath on November 9
He was additionally half of the benches which dominated on the validity of the Aadhaar schemes, and the Sabrimala temple difficulty which had created a furore within the nation.
Second-wave of Covid-19
A Justice Chandrachud-led bench had additionally handed a number of instructions to mitigate the miseries confronted by folks through the COVID-19 disaster, terming the brutal second wave of the pandemic final 12 months a “national crisis”.
Recently, Justice Chandrachud was among the many two judges of the apex courtroom Collegium who objected to the tactic of “circulation” adopted for eliciting the views of its members on the appointment of judges to the highest courtroom.
DY Chandrachud: A recognized workaholic
A recognized workaholic, Chandrachud presided over a bench on September 30, 2022, that sat until 9:10 pm, round 5 hours past the common working time of the apex courtroom, to listen to 75 circumstances to clear the board earlier than the onset of the Dussehra trip.
Women Army officers getting everlasting fee
In a landmark verdict in February 2020, a bench headed by Justice Chandrachud dominated in favour of girls officers within the Army getting everlasting fee and command postings, rejecting the Centre’s stand about their physiological limitations as being based mostly on “sex stereotypes” and “gender discrimination against women”. Later, a bench that he led paved the best way for granting everlasting commissions to girls officers within the Indian Navy, saying a stage enjoying discipline ensures that girls have the chance to beat “histories of discrimination”.
Ram Temple dispute
On November 9, 2019, the apex courtroom, in a unanimous verdict cleared the best way for the development of a Ram Temple on the disputed web site in Ayodhya, and directed the Centre to allot a 5-acre different plot to the Sunni Waqf Board for constructing a mosque. Justice Chandrachud was half of the five-judge structure bench.
Right to Privacy
He wrote the lead judgement for a nine-judge structure bench within the Justice Ok S Puttaswamy versus Union of India case through which it was unanimously held that proper to privateness constituted a elementary proper beneath the Constitution.
Decriminalisation of part 377 of IPC
He was additionally half of a five-judge structure bench that unanimously decriminalised half of the 158-year-old colonial legislation beneath part 377 of Indian Penal Code which criminalised consensual unnatural intercourse between consenting adults, saying it violated the rights to equality.
On one other five-judge bench, Justice Chandrachud, held part 497 of the Indian Penal Code that criminalised adultery unconstitutional on the bottom of being arbitrary, archaic and violative of the fitting to equality and privateness.
Aadhaar verdict
Registering a robust dissent, he differed with different members of a five-judge structure bench which by a majority verdict upheld the constitutional validity of the distinctive biometric id quantity Aadhaar. True to his non-conformist picture, Justice Chandrachud held Aadhaar unconstitutional and violative of a person’s elementary rights.
Entry of menstruating girls into Sabarimala temple
He concurred with the bulk verdict within the Sabarimala case holding the follow of prohibiting girls of menstruating age from getting into the Sabarimala temple was discriminatory and violative of girls’s elementary rights.
Justice Chandrachud was additionally half of a landmark judgment by a five-judge structure bench which recognised the ‘dwelling will’ made by terminally-ill sufferers for passive euthanasia.
Supertech twin towers demolition
A bench headed by him had ordered the demolition of realty main Supertech’s twin 40-storey towers in Noida held unlawful for violation of norms.
Career and Education
Chandrachud was a choose of the Bombay High Court from March 29, 2000 till his appointment because the Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court from October 31, 2013. Before that, he was designated as a senior advocate by the Bombay High Court in June 1998 and have become Additional Solicitor General the identical 12 months until his appointment as a choose.
After finishing BA Honours in Economics from Delhi’s St Stephen’s College, Justice Chandrachud did his LLB from Campus Law Centre, Delhi University, and obtained LLM diploma and a Doctorate in Juridical Sciences (SJD) from Harvard Law School, USA. He practised legislation on the Supreme Court and the Bombay High Court and was a visiting professor of comparative Constitutional legislation on the University of Mumbai.
(With PTI inputs)
Â
