DO YOU KNOW D Y CHANDRACHUD ?

Currently serving as a Judge on India's Supreme Court is Justice D.Y Chandrachud. On October 10, 2022, the incumbent Chief Justice of India (CJI), U U Lalit, proposed him as the second-most senior judge of the top court for the role of CJI.

Education And Eearly Life

On November 11, 1959, Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud was born in Bombay. Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud, his father, was the 16th and longest-serving Chief Justice of India (from February 22, 1978 –July 11, 1985). D Y Chandrachud attended St Stephen's College in New Delhi where he earned a BA with honours in economics. In 1982, he earned his LLB degree from Delhi University's Campus Law Center. He graduated from Harvard Law School in the United States with an LLM and an SJD in 1986.

Professional Life

Chandrachud worked as a solicitor at the Bombay High Court and the Indian Supreme Court following his graduation from Harvard. He received this designation from the Bombay High Court in June 1998. From 1998 till his appointment as a permanent Judge of the Bombay High Court in March 2000, he was India's additional solicitor general. He was appointed Chief Judge of the Allahabad High Court in October 2013 and served in that capacity till being named to the Supreme Court in May 2016.

Judgements

During his time on the Supreme Court, Judge Chandrachud wrote a number of significant decisions, including:

Aadhaar was declared unconstitutional in the K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India case, which Chandrachud was the lone dissenter in.

When the Sabarimala Temple Entrance case was considered, Chandrachud was on the bench and declared that "the restriction of women between the ages of 10 and 50 from Sabarimala Temple breached constitutional morals."

The question was whether the arrests violated the accused's fundamental rights to free expression and personal liberty, which are protected by Articles 19 and 21 of the Constitution, according to Chandrachud, who dissented in the Romila Thapar v. Union of India legal case the arrest of five human rights activists in the Bhima Koregaon case.

Also, he served on the panel of five judges that heard the Ayodhya title dispute case.