CJI NV Ramana recommends Justice UU Lalit as his successor
New Delhi: Supreme Court Chief Justice of India NV Ramana recommended the name Justice U.U. Lalit as his successor on Thursday. The senior-most judge, Justice Lalit, Supreme Court would be the 49th Chief Justice of India, after the government accepts the recommendation.
He was elevated to the apex court directly, from the Bar on August 13th, 2014. Justice Lalit would be having a short tenure of less than three months as the CJI. He will retire on November 8th. Justice SM Sikri was appointed directly from the Bar as 13th CJI from January 1971 to April 1973.
According to a communication from the top court, Chief Justice of India Justice NV Ramana today recommended the name of Justice Uday Umesh Lalit as his successor to the Minister for Law and Justice. Justice Ramana personally handed over a copy of his letter of recommendation dated 03.08.2022 to Justice Lalit today (04.08.2022) in the morning.
Justice Lalit, was specialist in criminal law, was designated as a senior advocate by the Supreme Court in April 2004. He was appointed as the special public prosecutor by the top court for the CBI in all the 2G spectrum scam cases. He had also worked with former Attorney General Soli Sorabjee between 1986 and 1992.