Espousing the importance of implementing ‘Constitutional Morality' in Indian jurisprudence, Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud emphasized the courts' commitment to ensuring diversity, inclusion, and tolerance.

Speaking at the inaugural session of the two-day East Zone II Regional Conference of the National Judicial Academy, the CJI also emphasized the significance of technological advancements in the justice delivery system.

CJI Chandrachud elaborated on the notion of ‘Constitutional Morality' as a restraining factor on the state, derived from the Preambular values of the Constitution.

Underlining the country's federal structure, "marked by a great deal of diversity," the CJI focused on the role of judges in "preserving the diversity of India."

“I am reticent when people call courts a temple of justice. Because that would mean the judges are deities which they are not. They are instead servers of the people, who deliver justice with compassion and empathy,” CJI Chandrachud said at the conference titled ‘Contemporary Judicial Developments and Strengthening Justice Through Law and Technology'.

Calling judges "servants and not masters of the Constitution," the CJI warned the judiciary about the dangers of personal values and belief systems of judges interfering with judgments that contradict the values enshrined in the Constitution.

“We could be masters of Constitutional interpretation, but a just society is established with the court's vision of Constitutional Morality,” he said.

The CJI also spoke about technology-driven measures aimed at aiding effective justice, such as making digitized formats of Supreme Court judgments freely available to all, decentralizing access to courts to provide travel relief to litigants, using technology to create awareness of court procedures, and categorizing cases.