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- Dhananjaya Yashwant Chandrachud (born 11 November 1959) is an Indian judge who is serving as the 50th and current Chief Justice of India. He is a former ex-officio executive chairman of National Legal Services Authority whilst being J1 (or the senior-most judge after the chief justice) of the Supreme Court of India. In addition, he is a former chief justice of the Allahabad High Court and a former judge of the Bombay High Court. Born to Y. V. Chandrachud, he was educated at Delhi University and Harvard University before practising for Sullivan & Cromwell and in Bombay High Court. He became a judge at the Bombay High Court and then the chief justice of Allahabad High Court. A liberal judge, he has been part of benches that delivered landmark judgments such as Privacy verdict and Sabarimala case. He has visited the universities of Mumbai, Oklahoma, Harvard, Yale and others as a professor. He succeeded Justice Uday Umesh Lalit on November 9, 2022 as the chief justice of India (at the age of 62 years, 11months and 29days) before which his nomination was challenged on the grounds of conflict of interest. A bench headed by Justice Uday Umesh Lalit had dismissed the plea a week before Chandrachud's oath-taking ceremony. (en)
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- Kalpana Das (en)
- Rashmi Chandrachud (en)
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- Dhananjaya Yashwant Chandrachud (born 11 November 1959) is an Indian judge who is serving as the 50th and current Chief Justice of India. He is a former ex-officio executive chairman of National Legal Services Authority whilst being J1 (or the senior-most judge after the chief justice) of the Supreme Court of India. In addition, he is a former chief justice of the Allahabad High Court and a former judge of the Bombay High Court. (en)
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- Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud (en)
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