Famous People with Name Yeshwant

Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud: served as the Chief Justice of India from February 22, 1978 to the day he retired on July 11, 1985. Born in Poona in the state of Maharashtra, he was first appointed Judge to the Supreme Court of India on August 28, 1972 and is the longest serving Chief Justice in India's history at 7 years and 4 months.In one of the most notable cases in Indian constitutional history, during the Indian Emergency (1975-1977) of Indira Gandhi, a bench constituted of the five most senior judges of the Supreme court of India heard the famous Habeas Corpus case, where detenues under the restrictive Maintenance of Internal Security Act had argued that the right to habeas corpus (article 21 in the Indian constitution) could not be suspended even during periods of national emergency.