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A judge of the Supreme Court, who partially collided with Section 377, supported the sexual autonomy of women, ruled in favor of positive action, recognized the privacy as a constitutional right and who called the 2016 Aadhaar Paper Act ‘a fraud on the Constitution’.
Justice Dye Chandrachud After the success of Justice UU Lalit, he took over as the 50th Chief Justice of India on 9 November 2022. The 16th and longest serving of India CJI, YV Chandrachad, Justice Chandrachud will be the Chief Justice of India for a two -year term by November 2024.
Early life of dye chandrachud
Justice Chandrachud studied mathematics and economics at St. Stephens College, Delhi University and later went to Harvard University to pursue the masters in law.
In 1998, he was appointed as a senior advocate in the Bombi High Court. Before becoming a judge of the apex court, he has also worked as the Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court.
Landmark decision by Dye Chandrachud
Several landmark decisions have been given by Justice Chandrachud, including the law of British-era, disintegration of Section 377.
What is the ‘order of nature’? The state cannot decide the boundaries between or not. Section 377 is based on deep root gender stereotypes.
Justice Dye Chandrachud
Chandrachud has always been designed for abortion for his supporter women, supporters likes.
On 26 September 2022, a bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Chandrachud passed a decision, expanding the benefits of medical termination of the pregnancy act to single and unmarried women.
The law should not decide what is the formation of acceptable sex based on narrow patriarchal principles.
Justice Dye Chandrachud
In September 2018, he refused to enter the Sabarimala temple in Kerala against women of menstrual age, called it ‘a form of untouchability’.
Religion cannot be a cover to deprive women of the right to worship. Treating women as children of less God is to take a nap on constitutional morality.
Justice Dye Chandrachud
In September 2018, he was a part of the five-judge Constitution Bench, who killed Section 497 to deal with the adultery of the Indian Penal Code.
He overturned his father’s 1985 decision, insisting the Adultery Act on the importance of ‘currently relevant decision making’.
The law on adultery implements the creation of marriage where a partner has to take his sexual autonomy to another. Section 497 does not pass the constitutional muster, being opposed to the constitutional guarantee of freedom, dignity and equality.
Justice Dye Chandrachud
In August 2017, Justice Chandrachud was on the bench that gave the ‘Putswami decision’, stating that privacy was a constitutionally protected right that he ruled that privacy is internal for life, freedom, freedom and dignity.
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