Uday Umesh Lalit, born in 1957 in Solapur to a family of lawyers, served as the forty ninth Chief Justice of India for a seventy four day tenure from August to November 2022, the second person to be appointed Chief Justice directly from the bar. A Supreme Court judge from 2014, he had earlier served as special public prosecutor in the 2G spectrum cases and took part in landmark rulings on triple talaq and temple administration. As Chief Justice he established constitution benches that sat daily to reduce the backlog of major constitutional cases. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Uday Umesh Lalit is an Indian lawyer and former Supreme Court judge, who served as the 49th Chief Justice of India. Prior to his elevation as a judge of the Supreme Court, he practised as a senior advocate at the Supreme Court. Justice Lalit is one of the eleven senior counsels who have been directly elevated to the Supreme Court. He is currently ‘Distinguished Visiting Professor’ at Ashank Desai Centre for Policy Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and Distinguished Visiting Professor at West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences.
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Uday Umesh Lalit (born 9 November 1957) is an Indian lawyer and former Supreme Court judge, who served as the 49th Chief Justice of India.
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In 2011, a Supreme Court bench of Justices G. S. Singhvi and Asok Kumar Ganguly appointed Lalit as the special public prosecutor for the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the 2G spectrum cases, stating that "in the interest of a fair prosecution of the case, appointment of UU Lalit is eminently suitable". He was appointed as a judge on 13 August 2014 and became only the sixth lawyer to be directly elevated to the Supreme Court.
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is an Indian lawyer and former Supreme Court judge
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lawyer and former Supreme Court judge, who served as the 49th Chief Justice of India. Prior to his elevation as a judge of the Supreme Court,
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P569 (date of birth): 1957
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P569 (date of birth): 1957-11-09
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