under a cloud

Senior lawyer Kamini Jaiswal says Justice Chandrachud’s appointment had come at “a crucial juncture as some of the last chief justices had left under a cloud of dark spots and the position had been denigrated with serious allegations”.

Yes, he left once, under a cloud.

Speaking to the BBC in 2013, he left school "under a cloud destined to do not much at all", having struggled with dyslexia - going on to work in a number of jobs before joining the police.

Claims about bullying, misogyny, and pay had come from people who had left under a cloud, he said.

In 2014, he was elected Los Angeles County sheriff, following soon after Lee Baca, the longtime sheriff who retired under a cloud of scandals that included the federal indictment of sheriff’s officials for allegations ranging from assaulting jail inmates to hiding a jailhouse informant from the FBI.