Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud
Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud | |
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Chandrachud in January 2024 | |
| 50th Chief Justice of India | |
| In office 9 November 2022 – 10 November 2024 | |
| Appointed by | Droupadi Murmu |
| Preceded by | Uday Umesh Lalit |
| Succeeded by | Sanjiv Khanna |
| Judge of the Supreme Court of India | |
| In office 13 May 2016 – 8 November 2022 | |
| Nominated by | T. S. Thakur |
| Appointed by | Pranab Mukherjee |
| 44th Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court | |
| In office 31 October 2013 – 12 May 2016 | |
| Nominated by | P. Sathasivam |
| Appointed by | Pranab Mukherjee |
| Preceded by | Shiva Kirti Singh |
| Succeeded by | Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale |
| Judge of the Bombay High Court | |
| In office 29 March 2000 – 30 October 2013 | |
| Nominated by | Adarsh Sein Anand |
| Appointed by | K. R. Narayanan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 11 November 1959 Bombay, Bombay State (present–day Mumbai, Maharashtra), India |
| Spouse(s) |
Rashmi Chandrachud (died 2007)Kalpana Das |
| Children | Abhinav Chandrachud, Chintan Chandrachud, Priyanka, Mahi (Foster Daughters) |
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| Alma mater | University of Delhi (BA, LLB) Harvard University (LLM, SJD) |
Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud (born 11 November 1959), often referred as DY Chandrachud, is an Indian jurist, who served as the 50th Chief Justice of India from 9 November 2022 to 10 November 2024. He was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of India in May 2016. He has also previously served as the chief justice of the Allahabad High Court from 2013 to 2016 and as a judge of the Bombay High Court from 2000 to 2013. He also served as the ex-officio Patron-in-Chief of the National Legal Services Authority and the de facto Chancellor of the National Law School of India University.
The second child of India's longest-serving chief justice, Y. V. Chandrachud, he was educated at Delhi University and Harvard University and has practiced as a lawyer for Sullivan & Cromwell and in the Bombay High Court.
He has been part of benches that delivered landmark judgments such as the electoral bond scheme verdict, 2019 Supreme Court verdict on Ayodhya dispute, privacy verdict, decriminalisation 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.