 Chandrachud died on 14 July 2008 shortly after he was admitted to the Bombay Hospital.He is survived by his wife Prabha, his son Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud, current judge of Supreme Court of India and in line to become Chief Justice of India himself in 2022  and his daughter Nirmala.His grandsons, Abhinav Chandrachud, a lawyer in Bombay high court and Chintan Chandrachud, a legal scholar and writer