49th Chief Justice of India only for 74 days

Justice Uday Umesh Lalit is India’s 49th chief justice on Saturday, 27 Aug 2022.

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The Indian federal judiciary's highest-ranking officer

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The justice Uday Umesh Lalit’s grandfather, Ranganatha Lalit, was a lawyer in Solapur long before India’s independence.

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Three generations of justice Uday Umesh Lalit’s family were present when he took the oath as CJI.

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In the 1980s, he moved his practice from the Bombay high court to Delhi.

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Criminal cases became his forte, and he ascended to the position of senior advocate on the supreme court.

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One of the high-profile cases he appeared in was the 2g spectrum allocation case, where the court designated him as a special public prosecutor.

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He was appointed supreme court judge directly from a lawyer in august 2014.

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He is the second such judge to be appointed as CJI.

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