New Delhi: Dr. Justice DY Chandrachud has been appointed as the new Chief Justice of India by President Droupadi Murmu. Kiren Rijiju, the Union Law Minister, stated in a tweet today that Justice Chandrachud’s appointment will take effect on the ninth of next month. He will succeed Justice Uday Umesh Lalit, the current Chief Justice of India.
The fifty-first Chief Justice of India would be Justice DY Chandrachud. Justice Chandrachud, who was born in 1959, was selected as a judge of the Indian Supreme Court on May 13, 2016. He had been Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court in the past. He received his LLB from Campus Law Centre of Delhi University and went on to Harvard Law School in the United States to earn his LLM and doctorate in judicial sciences.