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Who is D Y Chandrachud?
Early life and Education
Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud was born in Mumbai on November 11, 1959. His father Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud was the 16th and the longest serving CJI (from February 22, 1978 –July 11, 1985). D Y Chandrachud studied BA with Economics Honours from St Stephen's College, New Delhi. He completed LLB from Campus Law Centre, Delhi University in 1982. He obtained LLM degree and a Doctorate in Juridical Sciences (SJD) from Harvard Law School, USA in 1986.
Career
After his graduation from Harvard, Chandrachud practiced law at the Bombay High Court and the Supreme Court of India. In June 1998, he was designated as a senior advocate by the Bombay High Court. He served as the additional solicitor general of India from 1998 till his appointment as permanent Judge of the Bombay High Court in March 2000. In October of 2013, he was appointed as the Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court, he held the position until his appointment as a Supreme Court in May 2016.
Judgements
Justice Chandrachud penned some notable judgements during his tenure at the Supreme Court including:
The K.S. Puttaswamy v Union of India case, where Chandrachud was the sole dissenter, held that the Aadhaar was passed unconstitutionally.
Chandrachud was on the bench that heard the Sabarimala Temple Entry case, he held that ‘the exclusion of women between the ages of 10-50 years from Sabarimala Temple violated constitutional morality.’
In the Romila Thapar v Union of India case regarding the arrest of 5 human rights activists in the Bhima Koregaon case, Chandrachud dissented and stated ‘that the issue was whether the arrests violated the accused of their fundamental rights to free expression and personal liberty guaranteed by Articles 19 and 21 of the Constitution.’
He was also on the five-judge bench that heard the Ayodhya title dispute case.
Latest Updates on D Y Chandrachud
The role of the judiciary is to ensure that the law and its administration do not thwart justice but rather uphold it, CJI Chandrachud said
"People's faith in judiciary is determined by the single most important factor that judiciary is the first and last access for citizens in distress and need," he said
Criticises sealed cover proceedings, says views critical of govt can't be termed anti-establishment
The top court has come up with a fresh Scheme for Engaging Law Clerk-cum-Research Associates on Short-Term Contractual Assignment in the Supreme Court of India
Justice Chandrachud asked the Madras High Court Chief Justice to take initiative for the formation of creches in all the high court as well as all the district courts in the state
Chief Justice DY Chandrachud on Thursday inaugurated the newly created Yoga and Recreation Hall' for Supreme Court registry officials in the additional building complex of the apex court
The top court on January 16 had sought a response of the Centre on a batch of petitions pertaining to criminalisation of marital rape
The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to constitute a special bench to hear a plea by Bilkis Bano, who was gang-raped during the 2002 Gujarat riots, against the remission of sentence of 11 convicts
The electoral bond scheme was implemented by the Centre in 2018 as a source of political funding
A bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud rejected the challenge to the decision by the tribunal bar association
We need to put an end to this sealed cover practice in the Supreme Court... This is fundamentally contrary to basic process of fair justice, said a bench
Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud has announced that a legal glossary to guide judges against the use of inappropriate gendered terms in the legal discourse will be unveiled in the near future
Advocate Mathews J Nedumpara told the bench that Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud had on Tuesday said the petition will be listed for March 20
The Supreme Court and the High Courts also actively monitored the areas of human rights violations during the pandemic, he said
Sebi told to investigate stock manipulation charges against group
"We have launched neutral citations. All judgements of this court will have neutral citations," the CJI said, adding around 30,000 verdicts of the apex court will have neutral citations
Responding to a grievance against its registry for allegedly not following the rules on listing of cases, the Supreme Court said on Wednesday it is easy to be irresponsible in making such allegations
System launched in CJI's courtroom on experimental basis; Constitution bench proceedings will be transcribed from Tuesday, and vetted by lawyers before uploading on Supreme Court website
The judgements were passed by a division of Chief Justice S Manikumar and Justice Shaji P Chaly in January 2023, and the same were made available in Malayalam on the High Court's website recently
The Supreme Court on Tuesday, on an experimental basis, began using artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing technology for live transcription of its hearings.