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13/10/22 05:17 AM IST

CJI UU Lalit Recommends Justice DY Chandrachud As The Next Chief Justice Of India

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  • Chief Justice of India, Uday Umesh Lalit has named Justice DY Chandrachud as his successor.
About the Justice D Y Chandrachud
  • Meanwhile, Justice D Y Chandrachud had earlier served as the Additional Solicitor General of India in 1998.
  • He was sworn in as the Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court in 2013. He has been associated with the Bombay High Court too.
  • He was elevated as a judge in the top court in 2016.
  • Justice Chandrachud completed his BA with Honours in Economics from St Stephen's College in New Delhi, after which he took up an LLB course from the Campus Law Centre of Delhi University.
  • Advancing his understanding of the legal arena further, he opted for an LLM and Doctor of Jurisprudential Sciences (SJD) degrees from the renowned Harvard Law School in the United States.
Notable Rulings 
  • Justice DY Chandrachud during his tenure as a judge of the Supreme Court is that he overturned two judgments on adultery and the right to privacy made by his father, YV Chandrachud.
  • A few other cases that he appeared for are the Arnab Manoranjan Goswami v. State of Maharashtra (2021), Hariram Bhambhi v. Satyanarayan (2021), Nitisha v. Union of India (2021), and the Mahendra K.C. v. State of Karnataka (2021).
  • During the Arnab Goswami hearing, Justice Chandrachud observed that "Law should not become a ruse for targeted harassment" and conveyed that "Liberty" survives through the "vigilance of her citizens, on the cacophony of the media and in the dusty corridors of courts alive to the rule of (and not by) law."
Source - PIB 

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