{"id":88586,"date":"2022-11-09T11:31:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T06:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/?p=88586"},"modified":"2022-11-09T11:31:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T06:01:36","slug":"justice-dy-chandrachud-takes-oath-as-chief-justice-44-years-after-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/justice-dy-chandrachud-takes-oath-as-chief-justice-44-years-after-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice DY Chandrachud Takes Oath As Chief Justice, 44 Years After Father"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Justice DY Chandrachud will serve as the head of the Supreme Court for two years — till November 10<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

New Delhi: <\/strong>Justice Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud was sworn in as the 50th Chief Justice of India today. He was administered the oath of office by President Droupadi Murmu at a ceremony in Rashtrapati Bhavan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are top 10 points on this big story<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
  1. Justice Chandrachud will serve as the head of the Supreme Court for two years — till November 10, 2024. He succeeds Justice Uday Umesh Lalit, who was at the top post for a short tenure of 74 days.<\/li>
  2. Justice Chandrachud was elevated as a Supreme Court judge on May 13, 2016. He has been part of several Constitution benches and landmark verdicts, including in the Ayodhya land dispute and the right to privacy.<\/li>
  3. He was also part of the benches that delivered crucial judgments on decriminalising same-sex relations by partially striking down Section 377 of the IPC, the validity of Aadhaar scheme and the Sabarimala issue.<\/li>
  4. A Justice Chandrachud-led bench had passed several orders to relieve miseries faced by people during the Covid crisis. More recently, a bench headed by him expanded the scope of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act to include “unmarried woman”.<\/li>
  5. Justice Chandrachud is the son of late Justice YV Chandrachud, the longest-serving Chief Justice Of India who was at the top post for seven years.<\/li>
  6. Interestingly, Justice Chandrachud, who would be the first Chief Justice whose father was also one, has twice overturned judgments led by Justice YV Chandrachud.<\/li>
  7. Justice Chandrachud holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from St Stephen’s College. He later completed am LLB from Delhi University, and an LLM and a doctorate from Harvard Law School in the US.<\/li>
  8. He has practised law at the Supreme Court and the Bombay High Court, and was also a visiting professor of comparative Constitutional law at the University of Mumbai.<\/li>
  9. He was designated a senior advocate by the Bombay High Court in June 1998 and became Additional Solicitor General in the same year till his appointment as a judge.<\/li>
  10. Justice Chandrachud has earlier served as a judge in Bombay High Court and as the Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Justice DY Chandrachud will serve as the head of the Supreme Court for two years — till November 10 New Delhi: Justice Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud was sworn in as the 50th Chief Justice of India today. He was administered the oath of office by President Droupadi Murmu at a ceremony in Rashtrapati Bhavan. Here are top […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88588,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88586\/revisions\/88588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}