May 04, Kathmandu- The 50th Chief Justice of India Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud is on a visit to Nepal. Chandrachud, who landed at Tribhuvan Airport at 4 pm on Friday, became the first sitting Chief Justice of India to visit Nepal, the Supreme Court said.

Chandrachud, who came at the invitation of Nepal's Chief Justice Bishwambhar Prasad Shrestha, was welcomed at the airport by Supreme Court Judge Anand Mohan Bhattarai and Sapna Malla Pradhan.

On Saturday afternoon, Chandrachud is scheduled to tour all the cities of the valley before giving a keynote address on the Jurisprudence of Juvenile Justice organized by the Central Juvenile Justice Committee of the Supreme Court. Accordingly, he went to Pashupati on Saturday morning. After visiting Pashupati, he is being taken around the ancient sites of Patan, Basantpur and Bhaktapur. After that, he will give a keynote speech covering the Jurisprudence of the world along with India's practice on Juvenile Justice.

After his discussion on the Jurisprudence of Juvenile Justice, the Chief Justice of India will meet with the Chief Justice of Nepal in the afternoon. An official of the Supreme Court said, "After that, a State Banquet will been organized in his honor at Soaltee Hotel in the afternoon. Only the Minister of Law, Minister of Women and Children, Judges of the Supreme Court and high officials of the Supreme Court will participate in the banquet."

Chandrachud, who came to Nepal with his wife Kalpana Das, Indian Supreme Court Registrar Rakesh Kumar and Court Chetan Arora, will visit Muktinath before returning to India on Sunday afternoon and will reach Annapurna base camp and return to Pokhara for dinner.

Among contemporary Chief Justices around the world, Chandrachud, who has created the image of an intellectual judge, is one of the rare justices in India who has a liberal outlook. He is also known as a learned and studious judge who has a degree in reservation from Howard. His judgment that reservation was needed to represent the economically backward and unrepresented people rather than caste was very popular in India.

Similarly, his decision to cancel the rule of allowing only men to enter the Sabarimala temple in Kerala, saying that the custom of not allowing non-menstruating women to enter the temple is against the constitutional morality is also very famous. He has a very popular theory that rather than the letters written in the constitution, the court should look at what is the underlying sentiment behind it and make the purpose of that moral ground the basis of the decision. The courts of South Asian countries have started mentioning this principle in their judgments by quoting the principle propounded by the judgment of Chandrachud.

Judge Ishwor Prasad Khatiwada has also explained this principle in the judgment against the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly in Nepal, and Anand Mohan Bhattarai has explained this example in the case against the decision of the parties to nominate Bamdev Gautam who lost the election as a member of the National Assembly.

Some criticize Chandrachud, who played an important role in solving the 'Ram temple' case, as leaning more towards the Bharatiya Janata Party.

He pronounced the decision to cancel the marriage ban imposed against sexual minorities under Section 370 of the Indian Penal Code. Dhananjaya, the son of Yashwant Vishnu Chandrachud, who was the longest-serving Chief Justice, became the Chief Justice on 9 November 2022.