On Monday, Justice DY Chandrachud was appointed the 50th Chief Justice of India, Union law minister Kiren Rijiju said.
Justice Chandrachud would be sworn in by President Droupadi Murmu as CJI on Nov 9. He will succeed Justice UU Lalit, who is serving a short tenure of just 74 days.
"Extending my best wishes to Justice DY Chandrachud for the formal oath taking ceremony on 9th Nov," law minister Kiren Rijiju said after the announcement.
Last week, CJI Lalit had recommended Justice Chandrachud's name as his successor since he is the senior-most Supreme Court judge.
Justice Chandrachud been part of several Constitution benches & landmark verdicts of the top court including on matters relating to the Ayodhya land dispute, right to privacy & adultery.
Incidently, he will take charge on the day the apex court had passed the historic judgment in the Ayodhya case.
Justice Chandrachud, who was elevated to the top court on May 13, 2016, will have a tenure of two years as the CJI & is due to retire on November 10, 2024. Supreme Court judges retire at the age of 65.
He is the son of the longest serving CJI Y V Chandrachud who was the
head of the judiciary from February 22, 1978 to July 11, 1985.
Earlier, law minister Kiren Rijiju had sent a letter to CJI Lalit,
who is set to retire on November 8, to recommend his successor.
CJI Lalit, who wrote back to Rijiju recommending the name of Justice
Chandrachud, requested all the judges of the apex court to assemble at
the judges' lounge at 10.15am.
He then handed over the letter designating the role to Justice Chandrachud, who has also played a pivotal role in digitization of the judiciary.
He was judge of the Bombay high court from March 29, 2000 until his appointment as the Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court from October 31, 2013.
Justice Chandrachud was designated as a senior advocate by the Bombay high court in June 1998 & became Additional Solicitor General in the same year till his appointment as a judge.
After completing BA with Honours in Economics from St Stephen's College, New Delhi, Justice Chandrachud did his LLB from Campus Law Centre, Delhi University, & obtained LLM degree & a Doctorate in Juridical Sciences (SJD) from Harvard Law School, USA.
He practised law at the Supreme Court & the Bombay high court & was a visiting professor of comparative Constitutional law at the University of Mumbai.
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