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• In his first statements to the media after the swearing-in ceremony, Justice Chandrachud said, "Serving the ordinary citizen is my priority," and promised reforms in registry and judicial processes.He told NDTV, "My work, not words, will speak." • Justice Chandrachud will serve as the head of the Supreme Court for two years -- till November 10, 2024. He succeeds Justice Uday Umesh Lalit, who was at the top post for a short tenure of 74 days. • Justice Chandrachud was elevated as a Supreme Court judge on May 13, 2016. He has been part of several Constitution benches and landmark verdicts, including in the Ayodhya land dispute and the right to privacy. • He was also part of the benches that delivered crucial judgments on decriminalising same-sex relations by partially striking down Section 377 of the IPC, the validity of Aadhaar scheme and the Sabarimala issue. • A Justice Chandrachud-led bench had passed several orders to relieve miseries faced by people during the Covid crisis. More recently, a bench headed by him expanded the scope of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act to include "unmarried woman". • Justice Chandrachud is the son of late Justice YV Chandrachud, the longest-serving Chief Justice Of India who was at the top post for seven years. • Interestingly, Justice Chandrachud, who would be the first Chief Justice whose father was also one, has twice overturned judgments led by Justice YV Chandrachud. • Justice Chandrachud holds an undergraduate degree i...

By India Today Web Desk: Justice DY Chandrachud, in his latest judgment, overturned his father Justice YV Chandrachud's 1985 ruling that held the adultery law to be constitutionally valid. Justice DY Chandrachud said Section 497 destroyed women's dignity and self-respect as it treated them as their husbands' chattel and offended their sexual freedom. However, this is not the first time that Justice DY Chandrachud has overturned rulings that were ancient and meaningless in today's time. He overruled his father's 1976 ruling according to which right to privacy was not a fundamental right for the citizens of India. Justice DY Chandrachud has also delivered judgments that have made a great difference to our society. Rulings that have changed many people's lives. Here's all you need to know about the man: • Justice Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud was born in 1959 and is the son of YV Chandrachud, the longest-serving Chief Justice of India. • He completed his LLB from Delhi University and went to Harvard for his LLM. • DY Chandrachud was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of India on May 13, 2016, by the then President Pranab Mukherjee. He will be in office until 2024. • Justice Chandrachud was also the Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court from October 31, 2013, until appointment to the Supreme Court. • Before this, he was also a judge in the Bombay High Court from March 29, 2000. • Justice Chandrachud was also appointed as the director of the Maharashtra Judicial Acade...

In the same judgment, the bench led by him talked about the existence of abusive relationships within marital institutions while giving legal recognition to the offense of marital rape for the first time. The bench ruled that forceful pregnancy of married women can be treated as “marital rape” for the purposes of abortion. In February 2020 he delivered a verdict that gave permanent commission to women in the armed forces. "The time has come for the realisation that women officers in the Army are not adjuncts to a male-dominated establishment whose presence must be 'tolerated' within narrow confines," Justice Chandrachud wrote in the judgment. He was also a part of the bench in the historic Ayodhya case, the verdict of which paved way for the construction of a Ram Temple at the disputed site. In his early days at the SC Justice Chandrachud gained appreciation through his two popular dissenting opinions in the Aadhaar case and the arrest of activists for alleged involvement in the Bhima-Koregaon violence as he placed personal liberty above the government’s power to curb fundamental rights for the larger public interest. Emphasizing the importance of the right to dissent, Justice Chandrachud wrote in the Bhima Koregaon judgment: ”Dissent is the safety valve of democracy. If you muzzle democracy, the pressure cooker will burst.” In his dissenting view in the Aadhar judgment he declared the Act unconstitutional saying it will lead to unauthorized surveillance. In the past few y...

50th Chief Justice of India:President of India Droupadi Murmu on November 9, 2022, administered the oath of office to Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud as he took over as the 50th Chief Justice of India, replacing UU Lalit. President Droupadi Murmu appointed Justice DY Chandrachud as the new chief justice of India in October 2022. His service will be effective from November 9, 2022, to November 10, 2024. Justice Chandrachud has become the 50th CJI and has succeeded Justice UU Lalit. Chandrachud is also the second most senior judge of the Supreme Court. Speaking on the decision, Kiren Rijiju tweeted “In exercise of the power conferred by the Constitution of India, Hon’ble President appoints Justice DY Chandrachud, Judge, Supreme Court as the Chief Justice of India with effect from November 9, 2022. Justice DY Chandrachud formally takes oath as the new Chief Justice of India Who is Justice DY Chandrachud? • Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud, born on November 11, 1959, is an Indian Judge of the Supreme Court and will soon assume as the 50th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India. • DY Chandrachud is also a former Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court and Bombay High Court. • He was a former Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court from October 31, 2013. • Currently, Chandrachud is serving as the executive chairman of the National Legal Services Authority. • Justice Chnadrachud’s father Justice Y.V Chandrachud was the 16th Chief Justice of India from February 2, 1978, to July 1...

Justice Chandrachud was elevated to the Bench of the Bombay High Court on March 29, 2000. He also held the office of Director of Maharashtra Judicial Academy. On October 31, 2013, Justice Chandrachud was sworn in as the Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court and elevated as the Judge of the Supreme Court of India on May 13, 2016. During his stellar career in law spanning three decades, Justice Chandrachud has been instrumental in bringing some of the most landmark judgments in the country. Chandrachud, who famously said that dissent is the 'safety valve of democracy' and warned that 'blanket labelling' of dissent as anti-national or anti-democratic strikes at the 'heart' of the country’s commitment to protect Constitutional values, is known for his profound judgments. Justice Chandrachud was also the only dissenting voice in the Bhima Koregaon case as he upheld the rights of the five activists. In his minority opinion as a member of the bench hearing the bail plea of the activists in the Bhima Koregaon case, Justice Chandrachud wrote - "Dissent is a symbol of a vibrant democracy. Voices in opposition cannot be muzzled by persecuting those who take up unpopular causes." Recently, in a landmark judgment, a bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud, A S Bopanna and J B Pardiwala brought the inclusion of unmarried women in the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act (MTP) and said that the exclusion of unmarried women from the act was 'discriminatory'. He was also instrumental in crim...