{"id":1038579,"date":"2026-09-25T09:10:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T03:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038579"},"modified":"2026-09-25T09:35:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T04:05:31","slug":"legal-opinions-back-chandrasekarans-third-term-as-tata-sons-chairman-amid-trusts-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/25\/legal-opinions-back-chandrasekarans-third-term-as-tata-sons-chairman-amid-trusts-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal opinions back Chandrasekaran\u2019s third term as Tata Sons chairman amid Trusts challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legal opinions obtained by Tata Sons support the validity of N Chandrasekaran&#8217;s reappointment as chairman for a third five-year term, saying the provision in the company&#8217;s Articles of Association that requires a Selection Committee applies to the appointment of a new chairman and not to the extension or reappointment of an incumbent. <\/p>\n<p>While former Supreme Court judges Justice BN Srikrishna and Justice Uday U Lalit opined that the casting vote exercised by the chairman of the Tata Group board was valid under the company&#8217;s Articles of Association, the September 17 board resolution giving Chandrasekaran a third term was on lines of a similar one that gave him a second term in 2022, according to legal opinions reviewed in the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legal opinions obtained by Tata Sons support the validity of N Chandrasekaran&#8217;s reappointment as chairman for a third five-year term, saying the provision in the company&#8217;s Articles of Association that requires a Selection Committee applies to the appointment of a new chairman and not to the extension or reappointment of an incumbent. While former Supreme Court judges Justice BN Srikrishna and Justice Uday U Lalit opined that the casting vote exercised by the chairman of the Tata Group board was valid under the company&#8217;s Articles of Association, the September 17 board resolution giving Chandrasekaran a third term was on lines [&hellip;]<\/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-1038579","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\/1038579","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=1038579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038601,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038579\/revisions\/1038601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}