New Delhi:
On the ultimate day of his tenure because the Chief Justice of India, DY Chandrachud delivered a message from the ceremonial bench and acknowledged the fact that he would not function the nation’s prime decide.
“I will not have the ability to ship justice from tomorrow, however I’m content material,” he stated.
Chief Justice Chandrachud, who assumed workplace on November 9, 2022, bid farewell to his place at the moment after his two-year time period ended. Recalling a lighthearted second together with his registrar judicial the earlier night, he shared, “When my registrar judicial requested me what time the ceremonial ought to start, I stated 2 pm, considering it could permit us to wrap up quite a lot of pending gadgets. But I puzzled to myself-will anybody truly be right here at 2 pm on a Friday afternoon? Or will I simply be left taking a look at myself on the display screen?”
Reflecting on his profession, he described the function of judges as akin to pilgrims, coming to courtroom every day with a dedication to serve. “The work we do could make or break circumstances,” he stated. He paid tribute to the “nice judges who’ve adorned this courtroom and handed on the baton,” including that he felt reassured leaving the bench within the succesful palms of Justice Sanjiv Khanna, whom he praised as an ready chief.
“If I’ve ever harm anybody within the courtroom, please forgive me for that,” he stated, quoting the Jain phrase “Michhami Dukkadam,” which interprets to “May all my misdeeds be forgiven.”
Lawyers and members of the bar gathered to honour the outgoing Chief Justice, describing him as “a rock star” of the judiciary.
Justice Sanjiv Khanna, who has been nominated as his successor and will probably be sworn in because the 51st Chief Justice of India on November 11, stated, “I by no means had the prospect to look in Justice Chandrachud’s courtroom, however what he has performed for the marginalised and the needy is past evaluate.”
He added a private anecdote about Justice Chandrachud’s fondness for samosas, remarking that they have been served in practically each assembly, although the Chief Justice himself shunned consuming them.
Justice Chandrachud’s tenure noticed many modifications inside the courtroom, from the institution of Mitti Cafe, a facility empowering people with disabilities, to a devoted bar room for girls attorneys, alongside different beautification initiatives for the Supreme Court premises.
In his two-year time period, Justice Chandrachud authored a sequence of landmark judgments. Notably, he presided over the Constitution Bench upholding the revocation of Article 370, which redefined the politics of Jammu and Kashmir, ordering that elections be performed by September 2024 and stressing the necessity to restore statehood “on the earliest and as quickly as doable.”
In one other vital judgement, Justice Chandrachud declined to change the Special Marriage Act to recognise same-sex marriages, deferring to the legislature. However, he insisted on the correct of the LGBTQ+ group to be handled with dignity, free from discrimination.
Justice Chandrachud additionally led the choice to dismantle the controversial electoral bonds scheme, mandating larger transparency in political financing and ordering the State Bank of India to stop issuing electoral bonds.