Justice D Y Chandrachud is disappointed because the legislature sometimes hands over power (to decide sensitive issues) to the judiciary. According to him, it has happened in issues such as the power to govern the National Capital, the issue of passive euthanasia and (more importantly) challenge to Section 377, among other issues.

Justice Chandrachud is one of the five Apex Court judges, who in a landmark verdict last week, decriminalised homosexuality by scrapping Section 377. Two days after the judgment, he expressed his disappointment over lawmakers' role, while delivering a lecture on the topic "Rule of Law in Constitutional Democracy", at the 19th Annual Bodh Raj Sawhny Memorial Oration 2018, organised by National Law University, Delhi.