UU Lalit is an Indian lawyer who became the Chief Justice of India on August 27, 2022. He served as a judge of the Supreme Court of India from August 13, 2014 to August 26, 2022.
Wiki/Biography
Uday Umesh Lalit was born on Saturday, November 9, 1957, in Maharashtra, India (age 65; as of 2022). He studied at Haribhai Devkaran High School and Junior College, Solapur. Lalit was inclined to pursue a career in law by observing the experiences of his lawyer father UR Lalit and grandfather Ranganath Lalit. He graduated from Government College of Law, Bombay.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′ 9″
Hair Color: Salt and Pepper
Eye color: black
UU Lalit (left) and CJI NV Ramana
family
Parents and siblings
Lalit’s father UR Lalit is also a lawyer and served as a senior advocate of the Supreme Court of India and an additional judge of the Delhi High Court and Bombay High Court. Lalit was an additional judge of the Delhi High Court when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a national emergency. Lalit was one of the few courageous High Court judges who defied political pressure and granted bail to undertrial prisoners who were then packed in jails.
wife and children
UU Lalit’s wife’s name is Amita Uday Lalit. Deeply inspired by the Montessori teaching method, Amita founded Stimulus School in Noida in 2011. They have two sons: lawyers Shreeyash Lalit and Harshad Lalit.
From left to right, UU Lalit, former Indian President Ram Nath Kovind and UU Lalit’s wife Amita Uday Lalit
Former President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind attended the wedding reception of Justice Uday Umesh Lalit’s son Shreeyash in New Delhi in 2020
UU Lalit with his wife Amita Lalit and sons Shreeyash Lalit and Harshad Lalit
others
His grandfather Ranganath Lalit was a lawyer and when Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru visited Mahatma, the home of the Lalit family He hosted two separate civic receptions while visiting Solapur in Rashtra state.
religion
UU Lalit follows Hinduism.
Profession
as a lawyer
UU Lalit was registered as a lawyer in June 1983 and started his legal practice under the guidance of MA Rane. He practiced law in the Bombay High Court until December 1985 and shifted to Delhi in January 1986. Thereafter, he worked in the branch office of PH Parekh and Company. From 1986 to 1992, Lalit worked with Soli Sorabjee, the former Attorney General of India. As senior advocate, he served as a Supreme Court amicus curiae in April 2014; an amicus curiae is a person who is allowed to assist the court despite being a third party in a legal case. Later, he was appointed as the CBI special prosecutor to conduct the 2G scam trial on the orders of the Supreme Court. In the scam, various politicians and private officials in India’s United Progressive Alliance (UPA) coalition government have been accused of allocating 122 2G licenses on conditions that favored specific telecom operators. Former Telecom Minister A. Raja was accused of issuing 2G licenses to telecom operators at a one-time price, resulting in a loss of Rs 176 crore to the exchequer. He has represented several high-profile clients before the Supreme Court, such as former Indian Army Chief VK Singh, former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, actor Salman Khan, cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu and businessman Hasan Ali Khan. However, he came to public attention for his defense of Amit Shah in the extrajudicial murder of gangsters Sohrabuddin Shaikh and Tulsiram Prajapati in 2005-06 when Shah was the home minister of Gujarat.
as supreme court judge
On August 13, 2014, he was promoted directly from the Bar to the position of Judge of the Supreme Court of India.
noteworthy judgment
Triple Talaq Box
Justice UU Lalit, the Constitution judge who heard the controversial case, held that Triple Talaq violated the fundamental rights guaranteed under Article 14.
Kashinath Mahajan v Maharashtra
In the SC/ST case, a bench of Justice Adarsh Goel and Justice UU Lalit proposed three procedural safeguards to prevent “misuse” of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, which provides for a preliminary inquiry before an FIR is registered. Officers must obtain further approval before making an arrest. They also proposed provisions for granting anticipatory bail under the Act.
Ranjana Kumari v Uttarakhand
In the case, Justices UU Lalit, Ranjan Gogoi and Joseph ruled that immigrants cannot be recognized as Scheduled Castes in a state of immigration simply because that state recognizes a particular caste as Scheduled Caste.
Pradyuman Bisht v Indian Union
In the case, a bench of Justice UU Lalit J and Justice Adarsh Goel directed that CCTV cameras (without recording) be installed inside courts in at least two districts of each state and at strategic locations in court buildings. However, they ordered that these recordings would not be covered by the Right to Information Act.
Amardeep Singh v Harvin Kaur
A two-judge bench of the Supreme Court, Justice UU Lalit, held that the six-month waiting period for divorce by mutual consent under Section 13B (2) of the Hindu Marriage Act is not mandatory.
POCSO Act’s ‘skin-to-skin’ ruling on sexual assault
In 2021, a bench led by Justice Lalit overturned the Bombay High Court’s ruling that groping without “skin-to-skin” contact did not constitute sexual assault as defined under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (Pocso) Act. SC believes that
The definition of POCSO covers touching through clothing/sheets with sexual intent. Courts should not be overzealous in finding ambiguities in plain text. A narrow and pedantic interpretation cannot be allowed as this would defeat the purpose of the provision. “
The royal family of Travancore has the right to manage the Sri Padmanabhaswamy Temple
Following a previous judgment of the Kerala High Court directing the state government to set up a trust to control the Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple, a Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Lalit ruled that the Travancore royal family owns the temple. Management of the temple. temple. The judges noted that hereditary rules must be linked to the rights of the temple’s shaybats (servants).
Facts/Trivia
- On August 13, 2014, Lalit became the sixth lawyer to be directly promoted to the Supreme Court.
- Although many media outlets claimed that Lalit represented Amit Shah in two high-profile criminal cases involving the fake encounter killings of Sohrabuddin Shaikh and Tulsiram Prajapati in Gujarat , but he never made Amit Shah his client in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case. Instead, Ram Jethmalani defended Shah in the Supreme Court. In 2014, Lalit’s name was recommended for the Supreme Court bench following a controversy involving senior lawyer Gopal Subramanium, who chose not to be considered for the post after accusing the BJP of obstructing his promotion. Subramaniam claimed that the Modi government had ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation to “hunt” for “dirt” against him as he had assisted the Supreme Commission in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case. Lalit was subsequently nominated to succeed Subramaniam and his nomination was approved by the central government in August 2014.
- He served two terms as a member of the Legal Services Commission of the Supreme Court of India. In May 2021, Lalit J was appointed as the Executive Chairman of the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA).
- On August 4, 2022, the Chief Justice of India, Justice NV Ramana, wrote to the central government recommending Justice UU Lalit to take over as the next Chief Justice of India (CJI). At that time, Lalit was set to retire on November 8, 2022, after serving as the 49th Chief Justice of India for 74 days.
- On a visit to Mumbai in 2022, he visited a school run by Prerana, an NGO dedicated to helping women and children in red-light districts, and spoke with some of the women forced into the trade. touch.
- In June 2022, UU Lalit and his wife Amita Uday Lalit got married according to tribal traditions in Araku, Andhra Pradesh.
UU Lalit and his wife Amita Uday Lalit dance at tribal wedding in Araku, Andhra Pradesh
- He is a vegetarian and teetotal.
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