The journey from Mumbai's 'Danny' to becoming CJI!!!

Many stories related to Chief Justice of india DY Chandrachud are often seen on the internet. Recently his childhood friend narrated an anecdote regarding his name. In fact, in his childhood, CJI Chandrachud was known as Danny by his entire school. His friends still call him Danny. But there is a very interesting story behind this name also. The CJI's colleagues give mumbai considerable credit for "shaping" him into a visionary liberal. When he took over as CJI on november 9, 2022, he had disposed of about 6,844 cases in less than a month. The story of his name is also related to Mumbai. In bombay language he is called 'genius man'

Chandrachud's far-reaching decisions as a supreme court judge made him a legal legend. He studied in Mumbai. ashok Jagirdar recalls his school days, "We were part of red Barham house and our friendship was so strong that the entire school used to call us 'Jai-Veeru'." In an interview given to Mead Day, Jahagirdar told that both of us used to be part of the same cricket team.

Very few people know that DY Chandrachud has a lot of interest in cricket. He himself has been a fast bowler and mentions it with pride on many occasions. ashok says that even today, whenever he gets a chance, he wears cricket shoes and goes to the field. Chandrachud, 64, who loves cricket and music, is an "accidental lawyer" known for his dry wit and cool thoughts. Chandrachud was married to lawyer Kalpana Das. His first wife, Rashmi, died of cancer in 2007. The couple has two adopted daughters, and two sons from his first marriage.

Ashok Jahagirdar, remembering the old days, told another interesting incident. This incident happened when both of them were in third class. He says, "We had a teacher in the third class who had a lot of trouble in taking Chandrachud's full name - dhananjay Yashwant Chandrachud. The name was also long. In such a situation, she changed the name of DY Chandrachud to 'Danny' and the same name. Started calling from. ashok Jahagirdar says that after this Chandrachud gradually became famous as Danny in the entire school. Even today his schoolmates call him Danny. His parents named him 'Dhanu' and fondly called him by that name. Chief Justice of india dhananjay Y. Chandrachud's old friends call him 'Danny'. This nickname was given to him by one of his teachers at the 162-year-old Cathedral school in Mumbai. Here ashok Jahagirdar, grandson of former CJI PB Gajendragadkar, used to be his batchmate.