Justice DY ChandrachudJustice Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud held office as the fiftieth Chief Justice of India. An alumnus of Harvard Law School, where he obtained Master’s and Doctoral degrees, he practised law and served as Additional Solicitor General of India. He wa appointed as a judge of the Bombay High Court in 2000 and became the Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court in 2013. In 2016, he was elevated to the Supreme Court of India. Justice Chandrachud is renowned for his landmark judgments on the right to privacy, gender equality, disability, dissent, free speech, decriminalizing homosexuality and for striking down the electoral bonds scheme, among others. Read More Read Less