Chief Justice of India Uday Umesh Lalit has named Justice DY Chandrachud as his successor. He handed over the letter to Chandrachud, designated him as the next CJI. The letter was handed over in the presence of other judges of the Supreme Court.
In a matter of days, the President would designate Justice Chandrachud as the next CJI, which would be the final step prior to his taking oath as the 50th CJI after the retirement of Lalit on November 8th. That will make Justices YV Chandrachud and his son DY Chandrachud as the first father-son duo to head the Indian judiciary.
Chandrachud Jr. would serve as CJI for two years and two days, compared to his father's lengthy stint as the 16th CJI from February 1978 to July 1985.
In June 1998, he was designated as senior attorney and in March 2000 the Bombay High Court nominated him as a judge. On October 2013, he was named Chief Justice of the Highest Court in Allahabad. On May 13, 2016, he was named a Supreme Court judge.
In 2017, Justice Chandrachud overturned the controversial ADM Jabalpur decision from 1976, which supported the suspension of fundamental rights during the Emergency and was rendered by a five-judge panel that included Chandrachud Sr. The Sowmithri Vishnu Judgment of his father's court from May 1985 was overturned by his judgment decriminalising adultery under Section 497 of the IPC a year later.
He was also part of the 5-judge bench’s unanimous verdict in 2019 that awarded disputed Ayodhya land for construction of Ram Temple and a five acre land at a prominent place in Ayodhya to the Muslim side for construction of a mosque.
