Justice Chandrachud appointed next CJI, to take oath on Nov 9

“In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (2) of Article 124 of the Constitution of India, the President is pleased to appoint Dr Justice Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud, Judge of the Supreme Court, to be the Chief Justice of India with effect from 9 November, 2022,” the government notification said.

In exercise of the power conferred by the Constitution of India, Hon’ble President appoints Dr. Justice DY Chandrachud, Judge, Supreme Court as the Chief Justice of India with effect from 9th November, 22.

— Kiren Rijiju (@KirenRijiju) October 17, 2022

Justice Chandrachud will have a relatively longer tenure of two years and is due to retire on November 10, 2024 — this will be the CJI longest tenure in almost a decade.

A Law graduate from Delhi University, Justice Chandrachud got his LLM degree and a Doctor of Juridical Science from Harvard Law School.

He practised law at the Bombay High Court and Supreme Court and was designated a senior advocate by the Bombay High Court in June 1998. He served as Additional Solicitor General from 1998 until his appointment as a judge of Bombay High Court on March 29, 2000. He was also director of the Maharashtra Judicial Academy.

Justice Chandrachud took over as the Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court on October 31, 2013, and was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court on May 13, 2016.

During his tenure in SC, he penned crucial verdicts, including the landmark Constitution Bench rulings recognising privacy as a fundamental right, decriminalising homosexuality, and decriminalising adultery, among others.

A bench led by him had passed several directions to assuage miseries faced by people during the Covid-19 crisis, terming the brutal second wave of the pandemic last year as a “national crisis”.

Recently, Justice Chandrachud was among the two judges of the SC Collegium which had objected to the method of “circulation” adopted for eliciting the views of its members on the appointment of judges to the top court.

Justice Chandrachud is son of India’s longest serving CJI, Justice Y V Chandrachud — he was the head of the Indian judiciary from February 22, 1978 to July 11, 1985.