49th Chief Justice Of India: All You Need To Know About Uday Umesh Lalit

New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday appointed Justice Uday Umesh Lalit as the subsequent 49th Chief Justice of India (CJI). Last week, Chief Justice of India NV Ramana beneficial the identify of Justice Lalit as his successor to the Union Minister for Law and Justice. Justice Ramana is ready to demit workplace on August 26. He would be the second Chief Justice of the nation who was straight elevated from the bar to the bench of the Supreme Court. 

Before him, Justice S. M. Sikri was the primary lawyer to be promoted on to the bench of the apex court docket in March 1964. He grew to become the thirteenth CJI in January 1971.

Know About The New CJI:

– Justice Lalit was born on 9 November 1957 at Solapur in Maharashtra. He began his regulation apply within the Bombay High Court in June 1983. Here he practiced until 1985. He was nominated as Senior Advocate by the Supreme Court in 2004.

– In January 1986, he shifted his apply to Delhi. He was straight elevated as a Supreme Court Judge from the Bar on 13 August 2014.

– He was then appointed because the appearing chairman of the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) in May 2021.

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– He has participated within the trials because the Public Prosecutor of the CBI in all 2G instances below the orders of the Supreme Court. He has additionally served as a member of the Legal Services Committee of the Supreme Court for 2 phrases.

Justice Lalit may have a quick tenure of lower than three months as CJI and can retire on November 8 this 12 months. The retirement age of Supreme Court judges is 65 years. Justice Lalit was appointed as a decide of the Supreme Court on 13 August 2014.