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NEW DELHI: Justice Uday Umesh Lalit was on Wednesday appointed the 49th Chief Justice of India, according to a government notification.
Justice Lalit would be sworn in by President Droupadi Murmu as CJI on August 27 and will have a 74-day tenure since he retires on November 8.
CJI NV Ramana, who retires on August 26, had recommended Justice Lalit’s name to the government as his successor.
Who is Justice Lalit
Born on November 9, 1957, Justice UU Lalit had enrolled as an advocate in June 1983.
After practising for two years in the Bombay HC, he shifted to Delhi in January 1986 and was designated as a senior advocate by the SC in 2004.
Son of former HC judge U R Lalit, he was a preferred amicus curiae by benches of the SC.
The SC bench headed by Justice G S Singhvi had appointed Lalit as the special public prosecutor in the 2G spectrum sale scam cases. He was appointed a judge of the SC on August 13, 2014.
As senior advocate, Lalit had earned a name as a criminal law practitioner like his father U R Lalit. Both practised in the SC.
Sr Lalit was an additional judge in the Delhi high court when the then Indira Gandhi government had imposed emergency in 1975.
But he was among the few bold HC judges who went by the law and defied political pressure to keep granting bail to undertrial political prisoners.
Predictably, the government wreaked vengeance and did not confirm Sr Lalit as a HC judge.
Justice Lalit would be sworn in by President Droupadi Murmu as CJI on August 27 and will have a 74-day tenure since he retires on November 8.
CJI NV Ramana, who retires on August 26, had recommended Justice Lalit’s name to the government as his successor.
Who is Justice Lalit
Born on November 9, 1957, Justice UU Lalit had enrolled as an advocate in June 1983.
After practising for two years in the Bombay HC, he shifted to Delhi in January 1986 and was designated as a senior advocate by the SC in 2004.
Son of former HC judge U R Lalit, he was a preferred amicus curiae by benches of the SC.
The SC bench headed by Justice G S Singhvi had appointed Lalit as the special public prosecutor in the 2G spectrum sale scam cases. He was appointed a judge of the SC on August 13, 2014.
As senior advocate, Lalit had earned a name as a criminal law practitioner like his father U R Lalit. Both practised in the SC.
Sr Lalit was an additional judge in the Delhi high court when the then Indira Gandhi government had imposed emergency in 1975.
But he was among the few bold HC judges who went by the law and defied political pressure to keep granting bail to undertrial political prisoners.
Predictably, the government wreaked vengeance and did not confirm Sr Lalit as a HC judge.
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