Poor air forces CJI to stop morning walk

As the air quality worsens in the national capital, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud has stopped his routine morning walk.

“I have stopped going out for a morning walk from today. I usually go for a morning walk around 4 to 4.15 am,” the CJI said on Thursday in an informal chat with legal correspondents during a “pre-Diwali high tea”. Justice Chandrachud, who is set to demit office on November 10, said his doctor advised him to remain indoors in the morning to avoid contracting respiratory ailments.

On his post-retirement plans, the CJI said for the first few days he would take rest. He announced that the mandatory criterion of an LLB degree for grant of accreditation to journalists to cover the top court’s proceedings had been done away with and all accredited journalists would be extended the facility to park their vehicles on the SC premises.

CJI Chandrachud said digitisation of records had helped judges with the access to read case files on their iPads even on flights.