{"id":1037237,"date":"2026-09-21T09:08:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T03:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1037237"},"modified":"2026-09-21T09:44:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T04:14:04","slug":"tata-tangle-splits-legal-eagles-chandrachud-salve-differ-over-chandrasekarans-reappointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/21\/tata-tangle-splits-legal-eagles-chandrachud-salve-differ-over-chandrasekarans-reappointment\/","title":{"rendered":"Tata tangle splits legal eagles: Chandrachud, Salve differ over Chandrasekaran\u2019s reappointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tata Sons board\u2019s decision to grant incumbent Natarajan Chandrasekaran a fresh five-year term has put two of India\u2019s most eminent legal minds at odds. <\/p>\n<p>D.Y. Chandrachud, a former Chief Justice of India, has questioned how the board approved the reappointment. He has specifically questioned the use of a casting vote by the meeting\u2019s chair to break a deadlock between two Tata Trusts nominee directors \u2014 Noel Tata, chairman of Tata Trusts, and Venu Srinivasan. Tata Trusts is the largest shareholder of Tata Sons. The decisive vote was cast by Harish Manwani, chairman of Tata Sons\u2019 Nomination and Remuneration Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tata Sons board\u2019s decision to grant incumbent Natarajan Chandrasekaran a fresh five-year term has put two of India\u2019s most eminent legal minds at odds. D.Y. Chandrachud, a former Chief Justice of India, has questioned how the board approved the reappointment. He has specifically questioned the use of a casting vote by the meeting\u2019s chair to break a deadlock between two Tata Trusts nominee directors \u2014 Noel Tata, chairman of Tata Trusts, and Venu Srinivasan. Tata Trusts is the largest shareholder of Tata Sons. The decisive vote was cast by Harish Manwani, chairman of Tata Sons\u2019 Nomination and Remuneration Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037238,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037237\/revisions\/1037238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}