New Delhi: Supreme Court judge Dhananjaya Yashwant Chandrachud took oath as the 50th Chief Justice of India on Wednesday succeeding Justice UU Lalit, reported news agency ANI. President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath of the Office of Chief Justice of India at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Justice Chandrachud will have a tenure in the office till November 10, 2024.
He took the office, 44 years after his father, Justice YV Chandrachud became the 16th Chief Justice of the country from February 2, 1978 to July 11, 1985.
Prior to his appointment to the Supreme Court as judge on May 13, 2016, Justice Chandrachud was the Chief Justice at Allahabad High Court from October 31, 2013.
Justice DY Chandrachud formally takes oath as the new Chief Justice of India pic.twitter.com/JY0xdSrLEB
— ANI (@ANI) November 9, 2022
Justice Chandrachud, 62, was also the judge at Bombay High Court before his appointment as Chief Justice at Allahabad High Court.
He had also served as Additional Solicitor General of India from 1998 until his appointment as a judge in the Bombay High Court. He was designated as a senior advocate by the Bombay High Court in June 1998.
Justice Chandrachud succeeds Justice UU Lalit. Justice Lalit on October 11, had recommended Justice DY Chandrachud’s name as his successor to the Centre in accordance with the convention. President Murmu had appointed him as the next CJI on October 17. The Union Law Ministry had recently initiated the process for the appointment of the next CJI, asking the outgoing CJI to recommend his successor.
