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NEW DELHI: A strong votary of constitutional morality, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud has said the doctrine should not be rejected just “because it may sometimes be in tension with existing social practices.
In an interview to the Indian Express, Chandrachud, who completed a year on November 9 as the CJI, said, “We must recognise that the Constitution itself sought toreform social practices to ensure citizens were not dominated on the sites of religion, caste, ethnicity or other cultural markers.”
Responding to a query on the likely contradictions that may arise while examining Indian cultural practices through the prism of constitutional morality, especially with some arguing the Constitution itself is borrowed text, CJI Chandrachud said ‘certain constitutional values are universally accepted’ and that the framers of the Constitution consciously incorporated provisions adopted from other jurisdictions and modified them to suit the Indian conditions.”
