All You Need To Know About Justice UU Lalit, 49th Chief Justice Of India
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Justice UU Lalit will have a brief tenure of less than three months as the CJI and he would retire on November 8 this year.
Justice Uday Umesh Lalit, who was on Wednesday appointed as the 49th Chief Justice of India (CJI) after President Droupadi Murmu signed his warrant of appointment, will become the second head of the Indian judiciary to be directly elevated to the Supreme Court bench from the Bar.
Justice S M Sikri, who became the 13th CJI in January 1971, was the first lawyer to be elevated directly to the top court bench in March 1964.
Justice Lalit will assume charge on August 27, a day after the incumbent CJI Justice N V Ramana demits the office.
Justice Lalit will have a brief tenure of less than three months as the CJI and he would retire on November 8 this year. The retirement age of judges of the Supreme Court is 65.
