Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud is currently a Judge of the Supreme Court of India. He is a former Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court and a former judge of Bombay High Court. He was born on 11 November 1959 in a prominent Marathi Deshastha Rigvedi Brahmin family.
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Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud is currently a Judge of the Supreme Court of India. He is a former Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court and a former judge of Bombay High Court. He was born on 11 November 1959 in a prominent Marathi Deshastha Rigvedi Brahmin family. He studied law at Delhi University in 1982 at a time when few jobs were available to young law graduates. He has delivered lectures at the Australian National University, Deakin University, Melbourne Law School, Harvard Law School and Yale Law School. He continues to be a visiting Professor of Comparative Constitutional law at the University of Mumbai and Oklahoma University School of Law, USA. To date, he has been conferred three Honoris Causa by the Universities of Mumbai, New Delhi and Washington, D.C. His father was the longest serving Chief justice of India and his mother Prabha was a classical musician. He went on to receive his Doctorate of Juridical Sciences, from Harvard University in 1986. He describes the right to privacy in dignity, liberty, autonomy, bodily and mental integrity, self-determination and across a spectrum of protected rights. Dignity cannot exist without privacy. Both reside within the inalienable values of life, liberty and freedom which the Constitution has recognised. He concluded that the decision to uphold Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code was “halous” and “with the purpose of elevating certain rights to the stature of certain stature of guaranteed rights” He concluded the decision was wrong in the manner in which it was made, “in a manner which directly bears upon the constitutional jurisprudence of the country’s Supreme Court’’.
The judgment is also noteworthy for his observations on sexual autonomy and privacy. In 2013, In Suresh Kumar Khalhal v. Nazhhal Foundation, the Indian Supreme Court upheld the Indian penal code against the criminalized nature of carnal intercourse. “The decision washalous, whether popularly or popularly, whether by legislative majorities or popular opinion, whether in the courts or not.” “It is a constitutional value which straddles across the spectrum of fundamental rights protects for the zone of choice and self- determination,” he said. He also said that privacy is “the ultimate expression of the sanctity of the individual.’ He was appointed as a Judge on 13 May 2016, and has been on the highest number of Constitution Benches constituted to hear matters before the IndianSupreme Court. As a judge of the High Court he has delivered judgements on Indianconstitutional law, comparative constitutional law, human rights law, gender justice, public interest litigation, commercial law and criminal law. He said: “privacy is a constitutionally guaranteed right under the Indian Constitution. It is a right which must not be trampled on”. He added: ‘Privacy is the ultimate expression.
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