New Delhi: Justice Uday Umesh Lalit became sworn in as the forty-ninth Chief Justice of India nowadays, an afternoon after Justice NV Ramana retired from the highest judicial put up.
President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath of office of the Chief Justice of India to Justice Lalit at Rashtrapati Bhavan this morning.
Justice Ramana had advocated Justice Lalit as his successor in keeping with convention and norms of seniority. The President in the end showed Justice Lalit’s appointment as the new Chief Justice of India or CJI.
Justice Lalit may have a brief tenure of seventy-four days as the head of India’s judiciary and could retire on 8 November.
Yesterday at the farewell function of Justice Ramana, Justice Lalit stated that in his tenure of nearly 3 months he will consciousness of three key regions and considered one of his pinnacle priorities could be to make the list of instances easy, clean, and as transparent as possible.
Justice Lalit has additionally promised to make certain a straightforward regime where any pressing topics can freely be cited before the respective benches of the top courtroom.
He assured that there may be at least one Constitution Bench functioning at some point of the year within the Supreme Court.
Justice Lalit stated, “I actually have continually believed that the position of the Supreme Court is to put down the law with readability, consistency, and the excellent possible way to do it’s far to have larger benches as early as viable, anywhere the topics are referred to such benches in order that the issues get clarified straight away, the problem has consistency and the human beings are nicely aware of what precisely are the contours of the abnormal positions in law.”
The outgoing CJI Ramana on his ultimate operating day apologized for no longer being capable of listing all the pending topics and stated the courtroom has been firefighting pendency, which rose alarmingly at some point during the pandemic months.
Justice Lalit was a famed senior adviser earlier than he became the decision of the Supreme Court. He became appointed a judge of the Supreme Court on August 13, 2014.
Justice Lalit will be the second one CJI who was directly multiplied to the Supreme Court bench from the Bar. Justice SM Sikri, who became the 13th Chief Justice of India in January 1971, changed into the first attorney to be extended without delay to the top court docket bench in March 1964.
Justice Lalit changed into born on November nine, 1957, in Maharashtra’s Solapur. His father, UR Lalit, became an extra choice on the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court and a senior advocate on the Supreme Court. Justice Lalit enrolled as an endorse in June 1983. He specialized in crook regulation and practiced in the Bombay High Court from 1983 to 1985.
He shifted his practice to Delhi in January 1986, and in April 2004, he become particular as a senior adviser by using the top court docket.
He changed into later appointed a special public prosecutor for the CBI to behavior the trial within the 2G spectrum allocation case.
After Justice Lalit’s retirement on November eight, Justice DY Chandrachud is expected to be appointed because the 50th Chief Justice of India as he is subsequent in line for the submission.