Chief Justice of India

Justice Uday Umesh Lalit will be sworn-in as Chief Justice of India today. President Draupadi Murmu will administer him oath as the 49th Chief Justice of ...

Justice Uday Umesh Lalit will be sworn-in as Chief Justice of India today. Justice UU Lalit will be in office for 74 days, a tenure shorter than average. President Draupadi Murmu will administer him oath as the 49th Chief Justice of India at Rashtrapati Bhawan.

Justice Uday Umesh Lalit is the 49th Chief Justice of India. He is one of the six senior counsels who have been directly elevated to the Supreme Court.

The man took oath as the Chief Justice of India on August 27, 2022, in Rashtrapati Bhavan. Three years later, the Supreme Court collegium headed by then Chief Justice of India Rajendra Mal Lodha recommended his elevation as a judge to the Supreme Court. Years later, a Supreme Court bench of Justice G.S. Lalit, a former additional judge of the Bombay High Court Nagpur Bench. Before his elevation as a judge, he was a senior counsel at the Supreme Court. He is one of the six senior counsels who have been directly elevated to the Supreme Court.

Justice Uday Umesh Lalit was sworn in as the 49th Chief Justice of India (CJI) by President Droupadi Murmu during a brief ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

As the CJI, Justice Lalit will have a tenure of 74 days and would demit office on November 8 on attaining the age of 65 years. Justice Uday Umesh Lalit took the oath of office as the 49th Chief Justice of India (CJI) on Saturday. Justice Uday Umesh Lalit was sworn in as the 49th Chief Justice of India (CJI) by President Droupadi Murmu during a brief ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Justice Uday Umesh Lalit on Saturday took oath as the 49th Chief Justice of India. President Droupadi Murmu administered his oath in a ceremony held at the ...

He had said that the Supreme Court would have to find a solution to the matter of listing of cases at the institutional level. We request you to support our award-winning journalism by making a financial contribution towards the Scroll Ground Reporting Fund. Some of the cases listed include pleas related to the government’s exercise of demonetisation in 2016, reservations to the economically weaker sections, and a challenge to WhatsApp’s privacy policy. As a lawyer, Lalit was also appointed Special Public Prosecutor for the [Supreme Court](https://amp.scroll.in/latest/1031242/demonetisation-among-25-cases-listed-by-supreme-court-for-hearing-by-constitution-benches) will be listing some crucial pleas on August 29, Lalit’s first day as chief justice. Justice Lalit was made a Supreme Court judge directly from a lawyer in August 2014, making him the second such judge to become the chief justice of India.

देश के 49वें प्रधान न्यायाधीश (CJI) के रूप में न्यायमूर्ति उदय उमेश ललित ने शपथ लिया.

हाल ही में, न्यायमूर्ति ललित की अध्यक्षता वाली एक पीठ मामलों की सुनवाई के लिए शीर्ष अदालत के सामान्य समय से एक घंटे पहले सुबह साढ़े नौ बजे बैठी थी. न्यायमूर्ति ललित का सीजेआई के रूप में तीन महीने से भी कम का संक्षिप्त कार्यकाल होगा और वह इस साल आठ नवंबर को सेवानिवृत्त होंगे. न्यायमूर्ति ललित देश के दूसरे ऐसे प्रधान न्यायाधीश हैं, जो बार से सीधे उच्चतम न्यायालय की पीठ में पदोन्नत हुए.

Chief Justice Of India: भारत के 49वें प्रधान न्यायाधीश के रूप में आज न्यायमूर्ति उदय उमेश ललित ने ...

न्यायमूर्ति उदय उमेश ललित ने शनिवार को 49 वें मुख्य न्यायाधीश (सीजेआई) के तौर पर शपथ ली।

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Justice Uday Umesh Lalit was sworn in as New Chief Justice of India. President Droupadi Murmu administered swearing-in oath during a brief ceremony held at ...

On the issue of listing of matters, he said, “I must assure you that we will strive hard to make the listing as simple, as clear, and as transparent as possible”. But Justice Lalit headed Bench’s Judgment in SC/ ST atrocities cases was overruled by Parliament by passing Amendments to the Act. “So, we will strive hard to say that yes, we will always have at least one Constitution bench functioning all throughout the year,” he said. Justice D Y Chandrachud, the senior-most judge after Justice Lalit, is next in line to be the Chief Justice of India. In 2017, Justice Lalit delivered two landmark judgments against the automatic FIR and arrest in SC/ST Atrocities Prevention Act and Domestic Violence case. CJI Lalit was selected by Collegium directly as Supreme Court Judge in August 2014.

Justice Lalit will have a relatively short tenure of over three months with his retirement scheduled for November 8. He will also only be the second CJI to ...

According to the government’s Memorandum of procedure for the appointment of Supreme Court Judges, seniority is to be the norm. A Memorandum of Procedure was to be drafted for the appointment procedure, said the court at the time. While the bill introduced for it was passed by the Parliament, it was ultimately struck down by the Supreme Court in 2015. The Supreme Court laid down guidelines for appointments and transfers — leading to the present form of the collegium in which decisions are to be taken by a majority of the five seniormost judges, a result of the ‘Third Judges Case’. The more than two decades-old collegium system is followed in the appointment of judges, consisting of five seniormost judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts. It is mentioned in Article 124 that appointment by the President is to be done “after consultation” with judges of the Supreme Court, as the President may “deem necessary”.

Justice Uday Umesh Lalit on Saturday was sworn in as 49th Chief Justice of India by taking an oath in front of President Droupadi Murmu at the Rashtrapati ...

CJI Lalit will have a tenure of less than three months, as he is set to retire on November 8.

On the issue of listing of matters, he said, "I must assure you that we will strive hard to make the listing as simple, as clear, and as transparent as possible". "I will have a word with all my learned colleagues on the bench and we will certainly sort that out and very shortly, you will have a clear-cut regime where any urgent matter can freely be mentioned before the respective courts," he said. "So, we will strive hard to say that yes, we will always have at least one Constitution bench functioning all throughout the year," he said.