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Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud (born 11 November 1959) is an Indian jurist, who served as the 50th Chief Justice of India from 9 November 2022 to 10 November 2024. He was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of India in May 2016.
Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud (12 July 1920 – 14 July 2008) was an Indian jurist who served as the 16th Chief Justice of India, serving from 22 February 1978 until 11 July 1985. Born in Pune in the Bombay Presidency , he was first appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of India on 28 August 1972 and is the longest-serving Chief Justice in ...
Sanjiv Khanna, the incumbent chief justice of India, since 11 November 2024 The chief justice of India is the highest-ranking officer of the Indian judiciary and the chief judge of the Supreme Court of India. As head of the Supreme Court, the chief justice is responsible for the allocation of cases and appointment of constitutional benches which deal with important matters of law. In ...
(birth–death) Image Start of Term End of Term Length of Term Parent High Court Appointed by (President of India) Ref. 1 Harilal Jekisundas Kania (1890–1951) 26 January 1950: 6 November 1951 † 1 year, 284 days Bombay: Rajendra Prasad [15] 2 Mandakolathur Patanjali Sastri (1889–1963) 7 November 1951: 3 January 1954: 2 years, 57 days ...
Nominated as CJI by. Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud. Ram Nath Kovind. Appointed as CJI by. Droupadi Murmu. 18 January 2019 (6 years, 2 days) Appointed as CJI on. 11 November 2024 (70 days) 13 May 2025 (−113 days) 6 years, 116 days Tenure length as CJI. 184 days Delhi: 33 24 June 2005: Judge of Delhi High Court: 2 Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai ...
In the first ever case of capital punishment in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case death sentence was awarded to Yashpal Singh convicted for murdering two persons, 24-year-old Hardev Singh and 26-year-old Avtar Singh, in Mahipal Pur area of Delhi on 1 November 1984. Additional Sessions Judge Ajay Pandey pronounced the Judgement on 20 November 34 ...
Born on 30 September 1900 in Bombay to a well-off Gujarati Ismaili Khoja family, Chagla suffered a lonely childhood owing to his mother's death in 1905. [citation needed] His childhood was spent in their family mansion in near Nagdevi Street and Janjiker Lane, Khokha Bazar in Pydhonie. He later bought a mansion in Malabar Hill in 1934.
Chandrachud is a prominent Indian family who were nobles, sardars, and jagirdars in Pune in the Maratha Empire. They belong to the Deshastha Rigvedi Brahmin community. [ 1 ] Diwan Yashwant Gangadhar Chandrachud, a member of the family, held twenty-two villages as watan , including Newasa Budruk as Jagirdar . [ 2 ]