Chandrachud

DY Chandrachud served as the Additional Solicitor General of India from 1998 to 2000. As an advocate, Justice Chandrachud’s most significant cases have involved constitutional and administrative law, the rights of HIV+ workers, religious and linguistic minority rights, and labor and industrial laws. The government on Friday wrote to Chief… The post appeared first on . DY Chandrachud served as the Additional Solicitor General of India from 1998 to 2000. As an advocate, Justice Chandrachud’s most significant cases have involved constitutional and administrative law, the rights of HIV+ workers, religious and linguistic minority rights, and labor and industrial laws. The government on Friday wrote to Chief Justice of India Uday Umesh Lalit to name his successor, a report said. Justice DY Chandrachud is the senior-most judge after thy to be the 50th CJI after UU Lalit who will serve office till November 8. During his Supreme Court service, he has been on the highest number of Constitution Benches (five judges or more) constituted to hear matters on constitutional questions. During his tenure at the Supreme Court, he has delivered judgments on Who is DY Chandrachud?: Son of India’s longest-serving chief justice, YV Chandrachud, Justice Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud completed his LLB at Delhi University. He then studied at Harvard University after receiving the prestigious Inlaks Scholarship. At Harvard, he completed his Masters in Law (LLM) and Doctorate in Juridical Sciences ...

His minority views on the Bench of the court are as incisive as his concurring opinions. Both examine and question settled beliefs and opinions in society, politics and religion. They demand a fresh outlook and trigger the hope of reform. "Deprivation of liberty even for a single day is one day too many," he wrote about the plight of the Justice Chandrachud's judgment recognising privacy as a fundamental right became a game-changer which led to the decriminalisation of The His was the sole dissenting opinion upholding the rights of five activists arrested in the "Dissent is a symbol of a vibrant democracy. Voices in opposition cannot be muzzled by persecuting those who take up unpopular causes," Justice Chandrachud wrote in his minority opinion. His separate view concurring with a Constitution Bench held that the office of the Chief Justice of India was a public authority He had held that the Chief Justice and the judges of the court were constitutional offices and not a hierarchy. However, it was also Justice Chandrachud's judgment which upheld the CJI's role as the master of the roster entrusted with the duty to constitute Benches and allocate cases. The judge had objected to any presumption of distrust against the CJI in his exclusive prerogative. A common theme in Justice Chandrachud's judgment is an effort to ensure the rights and choices of women in society and workspaces. The judge had criticised the government's reluctance to find women Army and Navy short service ...

Here are some of the landmark judgments delivered by Justice Chandrachud: Abortion rights for women In a petition filed by a 25-year-old unmarried woman seeking an abortion, the bench of Justice DY Chandrachud, Justice AS Bopanna, and Justice JB Pardiwala passed a landmark judgment upholding the rights of reproductive autonomy of an unmarried woman. “The rights of reproductive autonomy, dignity, and privacy gives an unmarried woman the right of choice as to whether or not to bear a child on the same footing as that of a married woman,” said Justice Chandrachud. The judgment also recognised marital rape, in the case of such abortions. Right to Privacy In August 2017, a nine-judge bench gave a unanimous verdict guaranteeing the fundamental right to privacy. Writing the lead opinion, Justice Chandrachud recognised the right to privacy and dignity as an intrinsic part of life. “Life and personal liberty are not creations of the Constitution. These rights are recognised by the Constitution as inhering in each individual as an intrinsic and inseparable part of the human element which dwells within,” Justice DY Chandrachud said. Interestingly, this judgement overruled a previous judgement which held that fundamental rights could be suspended during a time of Emergency. One of the judges who passed that verdict was his father, Justice YV Chandrachud. In his judgement, Justice DY Chandrachud wrote, “The judgments rendered by all the four judges constituting the majority in ADM Jaba...