Chief Justice UU Lalit advises Justice DY Chandrachud as a successful candidate
Following the recommendation of the Union Minister of Law and Justice. The outgoing CJI names the senior-most judge as their successor before resigning from office.Chief Justice UU Lalit will retire on November 8.
Chief Justice of India UU Lalit nominated the Supreme Court’s second most senior judge. Justice Dhananjaya Yashwant Chandrachud, as his successor on Tuesday. CJI Lalit presented the letter to Justice Chandrachud during a meeting of Supreme Court judges in the top court’s judge’s lounge on Tuesday morning.
If confirmed by the government, Justice Chandrachud will become India’s 50th Chief Justice. With CJI Lalit set to retire on November 8, the inauguration ceremony for succes is on the 9th.
While CJI Lalit has a short tenure of fewer than three months. Justice Chandrachud will have a longer one, lasting two years until November 10, 2024.
After graduating from Delhi University, Justice Chandrachud earned his LLM and Doctorate in Juridical Sciences (SJD) from Harvard Law School.
Son of former Chief Justice of India Y V Chandrachud, he practiced law at the Supreme Court and the Bombay High Court before being designated as a senior advocate by the Bombay High Court in June 1998.
He was also the director of the Maharashtra Judicial Academy. He serve as the additional solicitor general from 1998 until he was appointe a judge of the Bombay High Court on March 29, 2000. On October 31, 2013, Justice Chandrachud was appointe Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court. And on May 13, 2016, he was appointe to the Supreme Court.
A nine-judge bench led by him recognized privacy as a fundamental right in the landmark Justice K S Puttaswamy (retd) vs. Union of India case. Following that, he addressed the constitutional validity of the Aadhaar. Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits, and Services Act, 2016, as part of a five-judge bench. While the majority upheld the Act, Justice Chandrachud ruled it had been pass unconstitutionally as a Money Bill.
