Hon’ble Dr Justice Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, 50th The Chief Justice of India. Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud is an Indian jurist, who is the 50th and Current Chief Justice of India serving since November 2022.
Biography of Hon’ble Dr Justice Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud
| Name | Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud |
| Birth Date | 11 November 1959 |
| Birth Place | Bombay, Bombay State, India (present-day Mumbai, Maharashtra) |
| Education | Delhi University and Harvard University and has practiced as a lawyer for Sullivan & Cromwell and in the Bombay High Court. |
| Father | Y. V. Chandrachud (India’s longest-serving chief justice) 16th Chief Justice of India |
| Marital Status | Married |
| Wife | Rashmi Chandrachud (died 2007), Lawyer Kalpana Das |
| Children | Abhinav Chandrachud, Chintan Chandrachud, Priyanka, Mahi (Foster Daughters) |
| Present Position | 50th and Current Chief Justice of India serving since 9th November 2022 |
| Previous Positions | Judge of the Supreme Court of India: 13 May 2016 – 8 November 2022 Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court: 31 October 2013 – 12 May 2016 Judge of the Bombay High Court: 29 March 2000 – 30 October 2013 |
Notable Judgments by Hon’ble Dr Justice Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud
During his Supreme Court service, he has been on the highest number of constitutional benches (five judges or more) constituted to hear matters on constitutional questions. During his tenure at the Supreme Court, he has delivered judgements on Indian constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, human rights, gender justice, public interest litigations, commercial law and criminal law.
He has been part of benches that delivered landmark judgments such as the electoral bond scheme verdict, the Ram Janmabhoomi verdict, privacy verdict, decriminalization of homosexuality, Sabarimala case, same-sex marriage case and on revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir. He has visited the universities of Mumbai, Oklahoma, Harvard, Yale and others as a professor and National Law School of India University as the de facto Chancellor.
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