{"id":124156,"date":"2022-08-31T13:45:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T08:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=124156"},"modified":"2022-08-30T23:44:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T18:14:46","slug":"uday-umesh-lalit-new-chief-justice-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/india\/uday-umesh-lalit-new-chief-justice-of-india","title":{"rendered":"Uday Umesh Lalit: New Chief Justice of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Uday Umesh Lalit is India&#8217;s 49th and incumbent Chief Justice. He previously served as a Supreme Court of India Justice. Before being appointed as a judge, he worked as a senior attorney at the Supreme Court. Justice Lalit is one of six senior counsels appointed directly to the Supreme Court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Educational Qualification and Family<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Uday U Lalit was born into the family of U.R. Lalit, a senior attorney at the Supreme Court of India and a retired additional justice of the Bombay High Court Nagpur bench.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He was raised in Solapur, Maharashtra, his family&#8217;s hometown.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Ranganath Lalit, his grandfather, was also a lawyer who presided over two different municipal banquets when Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru toured Solapur.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He has a wife named Amita Lalit. He holds a legal degree from the Government Law College in Mumbai.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Professional life<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Lalit became a Maharashtra and Goa Bar Council member in June 1983.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He began his legal career with advocate M.A. Rane, a proponent of the radical humanism school of thought who considered that social work was just as vital as creating a solid legal practice.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In 1985, he relocated to Delhi and joined the chambers of veteran attorney Pravin H. Parekh.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Lalit started working with former Attorney General of India Soli Sorabjee from 1986 to 1992.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Lalit enrolled and was certified as an Advocate-on-Record at the Supreme Court on May 3, 1992. Lalit was appointed as a senior attorney of the Supreme Court on April 29, 2004.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Lalit was appointed as the special public prosecutor for the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the 2G spectrum proceedings by a Supreme Court panel of Justices G. S. Singhvi and Asok Kumar Ganguly in 2011.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The court stated that Lalit&#8217;s appointment was &#8220;eminently fit&#8221; in the interest of a fair prosecution of the case.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">His professional qualities are &#8220;thoroughness with the case, patience in clarifying legal problems, and a calm demeanour when presenting the case before the bench.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">As a member of the Supreme Court<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Supreme Court collegium, led by then Chief Justice of India Rajendra Mal Lodha, recommended his admission to the Supreme Court as a judge in July 2014.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">On August 13, 2014, he was chosen as a judge, becoming just the sixth lawyer to be immediately promoted to the Supreme Court.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In 2017, he was part of a five-judge panel that ruled against the unconstitutionality of triple talaq, a practice used by Indian Muslim males to divorce their wives by saying &#8220;talaq&#8221; (divorce) multiple times.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The judgment prohibiting the practice was pronounced by J S Khehar, Kurian Joseph, R F Nariman, and Abdul Nazeer, in addition to Lalit.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">On January 10, 2019, Judge Lalit abstained from the Ayodhya dispute case before a five-judge bench.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Rajeev Dhavan brought his attendance for former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh in a &#8216;related case&#8217; to the court&#8217;s attention, and the court highlighted in its ruling Justice Lalit&#8217;s &#8216;disinclination&#8217; to join in the matter. He has also withdrawn from several other high-profile cases.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In May 2021, he was a member of the bench that denied bail to Gautam Navlakha, the accused activist, in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon incident.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">As India&#8217;s Chief Justice<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">President of India Droupadi Murmu named him as the 49th Chief Justice of India on August 10, 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">On August 27, 2022, President Droupadi Murmu swore him as the 49th Chief Justice of India at Rashtrapati Bhavan.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He is just the second direct appointment from the bar to serve as Chief Justice of India.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uday Umesh Lalit is India&#8217;s 49th and incumbent Chief Justice. He previously served as a Supreme Court of India Justice. Before being appointed as a judge, he worked as a senior attorney at the Supreme Court. Justice Lalit is one of six senior counsels appointed directly to the Supreme Court. 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