Guwahati: Justice Uday Umesh Lalit has been appointed as India’s 49th Chief Justice, a notification by the Ministry of Law and Justice stated.
Justice Lalit was suggested as the Union Minister for Law and Justice’s replacement by Chief Justice of India NV Ramana last week. Justice Ramana would step down from his position on August 26.
Justice Lalit is the second Chief Justice of India to be promoted directly from the bar to the bench of the top court as the senior-most judge on the Supreme Court.
The brief term of less than three months for Justice Lalit as Chief Justice of India. He’ll stop working on November 8.
Justice Lalit, who was born on November 9, 1957, practised law at the Bombay High Court from June 1983 till December 1985. He moved to Delhi in January 1986. He served as the former attorney general Soli J. Sorabjee’s employee from 1986 until 1992. In August 2014, he was chosen to serve as a Supreme Court justice.
The triple talaq case was discussed at Justice Lalit’s historic hearings. He was part of a five-judge bench that, by a 3-2 majority in 2017, ruled that the practice was illegal and unconstitutional.