Justice DY Chandrachud was sworn in as the 50th Chief Justice of India on Wednesday..President of India, Droupadi Murmu administered the oath of office to Justice Chandrachud at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan at 10 AM today.Justice Chandrachud took over from former CJI UU Lalit who retired from office on Tuesday..Justice Chandrachud was born on November 11, 1959.He graduated from Delhi's St Stephen's College in 1979 before completing his LL.B. from Delhi University in 1982 and LL.M. from Harvard University in 1983. He obtained the degree of Doctor of Juridicial Sciences (SJD) from Harvard in 1986.Justice Chandrachud served as an Additional Solicitor General for India from 1998 to 2000. He was designated a Senior Advocate by the Bombay High Court in 1998 and appeared in several important cases involving public interest litigation, rights of bonded women workers, rights of HIV positive workers in the work place, contract labour and the rights of religious and linguistic minorities.He was appointed as an additional judge of the Bombay High Court on March 29, 2000 and served there till his appointment as Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court on October 31, 2013.His elevation to the Supreme Court took place on May 13, 2016. He has since authored a number of notable judgments including dissenting opinions against the ruling dispensation.He was the lone dissenting judge, on a nine-judge Constitution Bench, who held the Aadhaar Act to be unconstitutional for having been passed as a Money Bill.Under the Chairmanship of Justice Chandrachud, the Supreme Court E-Court Committee has been instrumental in creating infrastructure for live-streaming of court proceedings in India, especially at a time when hearings were severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic..Read more about lawyers expectation from CJI DY Chandrachud here..[Read live account from swearing-in ceremony below]
Justice DY Chandrachud was sworn in as the 50th Chief Justice of India on Wednesday..President of India, Droupadi Murmu administered the oath of office to Justice Chandrachud at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan at 10 AM today.Justice Chandrachud took over from former CJI UU Lalit who retired from office on Tuesday..Justice Chandrachud was born on November 11, 1959.He graduated from Delhi's St Stephen's College in 1979 before completing his LL.B. from Delhi University in 1982 and LL.M. from Harvard University in 1983. He obtained the degree of Doctor of Juridicial Sciences (SJD) from Harvard in 1986.Justice Chandrachud served as an Additional Solicitor General for India from 1998 to 2000. He was designated a Senior Advocate by the Bombay High Court in 1998 and appeared in several important cases involving public interest litigation, rights of bonded women workers, rights of HIV positive workers in the work place, contract labour and the rights of religious and linguistic minorities.He was appointed as an additional judge of the Bombay High Court on March 29, 2000 and served there till his appointment as Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court on October 31, 2013.His elevation to the Supreme Court took place on May 13, 2016. He has since authored a number of notable judgments including dissenting opinions against the ruling dispensation.He was the lone dissenting judge, on a nine-judge Constitution Bench, who held the Aadhaar Act to be unconstitutional for having been passed as a Money Bill.Under the Chairmanship of Justice Chandrachud, the Supreme Court E-Court Committee has been instrumental in creating infrastructure for live-streaming of court proceedings in India, especially at a time when hearings were severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic..Read more about lawyers expectation from CJI DY Chandrachud here..[Read live account from swearing-in ceremony below]
