{"id":112986,"date":"2022-08-12T20:25:37","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T14:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=112986"},"modified":"2022-09-09T12:07:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T06:37:48","slug":"supreme-court-of-india-justice-uday-umesh-lalit-appointed-49th-cji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/supreme-court-of-india-justice-uday-umesh-lalit-appointed-49th-cji\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court of India: Justice Uday Umesh Lalit appointed 49th CJI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Justice Uday Umesh Lalit was on Wednesday appointed as the 49th&nbsp;Chief Justice of India&nbsp;with President Droupadi Murmu signing his warrant of appointment. He will assume charge on August 27 after incumbent&nbsp;NV Ramana&nbsp;demits office on August 26. He will have a brief tenure as the head of India\u2019s judiciary and will demit office on 8 November after holding the charge as the CJI for nearly three months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Under which clause Justice Uday Umesh Lalit appointed?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In exercise of the powers conferred by&nbsp;clause (2) of Article 124 of the Constitution of India,&nbsp;the President is pleased to appoint Shri Justice Uday Umesh Lalit, judge of the&nbsp;Supreme Court of India,&nbsp;to be the Chief Justice of India with effect from 27 August 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>All you need to know about Justice Lalit:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was born on&nbsp;9 November 1957,&nbsp;Justice Lalit enrolled as an advocate in&nbsp;June 1983&nbsp;and practised in the&nbsp;Bombay High Court till December 1985.He shifted his practice to Delhi in January 1986, and in April 2004, he was designated as a senior advocate by the apex court. Justice Lalit, who was a renowned senior advocate, was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court on&nbsp;13 August 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has since been involved in the delivery of several landmark judgements of the apex court. He was appointed a special public prosecutor for the CBI to conduct the trial in the 2G spectrum allocation case. Justice Lalit is due to retire on 8 November this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Important takeaways for all competitive exams:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Supreme Court of India Founded:&nbsp;26 January 1950, New Delhi;<\/li><li>Supreme Court of India Established:&nbsp;26 January 1950.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice Uday Umesh Lalit was on Wednesday appointed as the 49th&nbsp;Chief Justice of India&nbsp;with President Droupadi Murmu signing his warrant of appointment. He will assume charge on August 27 after incumbent&nbsp;NV Ramana&nbsp;demits office on August 26. 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