Watch: Justice UU Lalit Takes Oath As The 49th Chief Justice Of India

New Delhi Justice Uday Umesh Lalit was sworn in as the 49th Chief Justice of India moment, a day after Justice NV Ramana retired from the loftiest judicial post. President Droupadi Murmu administered the pledge of office of the Chief Justice of India to Justice Lalit at Rashtrapati Bhavan this morning.

Justice Ramana had recommended Justice Lalit as his successor in keeping with convention and morals of senility. The President latterly verified Justice Lalit's appointment as the new Chief Justice of India or CJI.

Justice Lalit will have a brief term of 74 days as the head of India's bar and would retire on 8 November.

History at the farewell function of Justice Ramana, Justice Lalit said that during his term of nearly three months he'll concentrate on three crucial areas and one of his top precedences would be to make the table of cases simple, clear and as transparent as possible. 

Justice Lalit has also promised to insure a clear- cut governance where any critical matters can freely be mentioned before the separate benches of the top court. 

He assured that there will be at least one Constitution Bench performing throughout the time in the Supreme Court. 

Justice Lalit said," I've always believed that the part of the Supreme Court is to lay down law with clarity, thickness, and the stylish possible way to do it's to have larger benches as early as possible, wherever the matters are appertained to similar benches so that the issues get clarified incontinently, the matter has thickness and the people are well apprehensive of what exactly are the silhouettes of the peculiar positions in law." 

The gregarious CJI Ramana on his last working day apologised for not being suitable to list all the pending matters and said the court has been firefighting pendency, which rose alarmingly during the epidemic months. 

 

Justice Lalit was a famed elderly advocate before he came the judge of the Supreme Court. He was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court on August 13, 2014. 

Justice Lalit will be the alternate CJI who was directly elevated to the Supreme Court bench from the Bar. Justice SM Sikri, who came the 13th Chief Justice of India in January 1971, was the first counsel to be elevated directly to the top court bench in March 1964. 

Justice Lalit was born on November 9, 1957, in Maharashtra's Solapur. His father, UR Lalit, was an fresh judge at the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court and a elderly advocate at the Supreme Court. Justice Lalit enrolled as an advocate in June 1983. He specialised in felonious law and rehearsed at the Bombay High Court from 1983 to 1985. 

He shifted his practice to Delhi in January 1986, and in April 2004, he was designated as a elderly advocate by the top court. 

 

He was latterly appointed a special public prosecutor for the CBI to conduct the trial in the 2G diapason allocation case. 

After Justice Lalit's withdrawal on November 8, Justice DY Chandrachud is anticipated to be appointed as the 50th Chief Justice of India as he's coming in line for the post.