Dhananjaya Chandrachud says he wants to make the judiciary more representative, efficient and accountable to citizens. He will have his work cut out
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskDhananjaya Chandrachud, who assumed office as India’s 50th chief justice on November 9th, was appointed to the Supreme Court seven months after that ruling. He joined a court still deeply mindful of its failure to check Indira Gandhi’s assumption of dictatorial powers during the Emergency in 1975 and, as a result, fiercely protective of its independence.
He has long been an outspoken advocate of liberal values and minority rights. In a lecture in 2020 he condemned governments that disdain criticism. “The blanket labelling of dissent as antinational or anti-democratic” was harmful to democracy and the constitution, he argued, and use of “the state machinery” to curb such dissent violated the rule of law.
Mr Chandrachud says he wants to make the judiciary more representative, efficient and accountable to citizens. He will have his work cut out. The government is becoming increasingly inventive in its efforts to influence the courts. It has dragged its feet on clearing the appointments of new judges it dislikes. More insidiously, government agencies are deliberately stretching already overworked and understaffed courts by filing spurious cases against their opponents.
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