Chief Justice of India 2022: Justice UU Lalit to be the 49th Chief Justice of India

Chief Justice of India 2022: Justice Uday U Lalit is going to become the 49th Chief Justice of India. Chief Justice of India NV Ramana recommended the name of Justice UU Lalit as his successor on August 4, 2022.

The current Chief Justice of India NV Ramana is due to retire on August 27, 2022. The tenure of the new Chief Justice of India will be less than three months. He will be the only second judge after Justice SM Sikri (CJI from 1971-1973) to be elevated from the Bar to the rank of Chief Justice of India.

Justice UU Lalit was appointed a judge in the Supreme Court of India in August 2014.

Who is Justice UU Lalit?

• Uday Umesh Lalit is a senior judge in the Supreme Court of India.
• Before his promotion as a judge, he was practicing as a senior advocate in the Supreme Court.
• Justice Lalit is the sixth senior advocate to be directly promoted to the top court of the country.
• He is due to retire on November 8, 2022.
• He will serve as the Chief Justice of India for a period of seventy-four days as the 49th CJI.
• Justice UU Lalit joined the bar in June 1983.
• He started practicing in the Supreme Court of India in 1986.
• He worked with Soli Sorabji, the former Attorney General of India from 1986 to 1992.
• Justice UU Lalit was designated as a senior advocate of the Supreme Court on April 29, 2004.