UU Lalit is an Indian lawyer who became the Chief Justice of India on 27 August 2022. He served as a judge of the Supreme Court of India from 13 August 2014 to 26 August 2022.
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Wiki/Biography
Uday Umesh Lalit was born on Saturday, 9 November 1957 (age 65 years; as in 2022) in Maharashtra, India. He did his schooling from Haribhai Devkaran High School and Junior College, Solapur. Seeing his lawyer father UR Lalit and grandfather Ranganath Lalit, Lalit was inclined towards a career in law. He graduated from Government Law College, Mumbai.
Physical Appearance
Height (Approx): 5′ 9″
Hair Color: Salt and Pepper
Eye colour: black
UU Lalit (left) and CJI NV Ramana
Family
parents and siblings
Lalit’s father, UR Lalit, is also a lawyer, who has served as a senior counsel in the Supreme Court of India and as an additional judge of the Delhi High Court and Bombay High Court. UR Lalit was an additional judge in the Delhi High Court when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared emergency across the country. UR Lalit was one of the few courageous judges of the High Court who defied political pressure and granted bail to the undertrials with whom the jails were filled at that time.
wife and children
UU Lalit’s wife’s name is Amita Uday Lalit. Highly inspired by the Montessori teaching methodology, Amita founded Stimulus School in Noida in 2011. They have two sons, Shriyash Lalit, a lawyer, and Harshad Lalit.
From left to right, UU Lalit, former President of India Ram Nath Kovind and UU Lalit’s wife Amita Uday Lalit.
Former President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind attending the wedding ceremony of Justice Uday Umesh Lalit, son of Shriyash, in New Delhi in 2020.
UU Lalit with his wife Amita Lalit and sons Shriyash Lalit and Harshad Lalit
Other
His grandfather, Ranganath Lalit, was a lawyer who presided over two separate civic receptions when Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru visited Solapur, Maharashtra, the ancestral town of the Lalit family.
Religion
UU Lalit follows Hindu religion.
livelihood
as a lawyer
UU Lalit enrolled as an advocate in June 1983 and started his legal practice under MA Rane. Until December 1985, he practiced in the Bombay High Court and transferred his practice to Delhi in January 1986. Subsequently, he worked in the chambers of PH Parekh & Company. From 1986 to 1992, Lalit worked with former Attorney General of India Soli Sorabjee. As a senior advocate, he served as amicus curiae to the Supreme Court 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 Special Public Prosecutor of the CBI to prosecute the 2G scam under the orders of the Supreme Court. In the alleged scam, various Indian politicians and private officials of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) coalition government in India were accused of allocating 122 2G licenses on terms that favored specific telecom operators. Former Telecom Minister A. Raja was accused of issuing 2G licenses to telecom operators at throwaway prices, causing a loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore to the exchequer. He has represented many high-profile clients in 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 under public scrutiny for defending Amit Shah against charges in the case of extrajudicial killings of gangsters Sohrabuddin Shaikh and Tulsiram Prajapati in 2005–06, when Shah was serving as the Home Minister of Gujarat. .
as a judge of the Supreme Court
On 13 August 2014, he was elevated to the post of Judge of the Supreme Court of India directly from the Bar.
notable decisions
triple talaq case
Justice UU Lalit was on the Constitution bench that heard the controversial case in which he had held that triple talaq was a violation of the fundamental right guaranteed under Article 14.
Kashinath Mahajan vs. State of Maharashtra
In the SC/ST case, a bench of Justices Adarsh Goel and UU Lalit introduced three procedural safeguards to prevent ‘misuse’ of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, wherein they stipulated that a preliminary inquiry should be conducted. The investigating officer will have to obtain further approval before registering an FIR and before making an arrest. He also introduced the provision of granting anticipatory bail under the Act.
Ranjana Kumari vs State of Uttarakhand
In the case, a bench of Justices UU Lalit, Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Joseph ruled that a migrant cannot be recognized as a Scheduled Caste person in the migrant state merely because that state recognizes a specific caste as Scheduled Caste. Recognizes as.
Pradyumna Bisht vs Union of India
In the case, Justice UU Lalit J and Justice Adarsh Goel directed that CCTV cameras (without audio recording) be installed inside the courts and at strategic locations in the court premises in at least two districts in every state. However, he ordered that these recordings would not be subject to the Right to Information Act.
Amardeep Singh vs Harveen Kaur
Justice UU Lalit was on a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court that held that the 6-month waiting period prescribed under Section 13B(2) of the Hindu Marriage Act for divorce by mutual consent was not mandatory.
‘Skin-to-skin contact’ ruled sexual harassment under POCSO Act
In 2021, a bench led by Justice Lalit overturned the Bombay High Court’s decision that touching without ‘skin-to-skin’ contact does not amount to sexual assault, as defined under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act. Has gone. SC said,
Touching through clothes/bedsheet with sexual intent is included in the definition of POCSO. Courts should not be overzealous in finding ambiguities in plain words. Narrow pedantic interpretation that defeats the purpose of the provisions cannot be allowed.”
The right to administer Sri Padmanabha Swamy Temple belongs to the Travancore Royal Family.
Setting aside the previous judgment of the Kerala High Court, which had directed the state government to form a trust to take control of the Sri Padmanabha Swamy temple, an SC bench headed by Justice Lalit ruled that the Royal Family of Travancore should take over the management. Had the right to. Temple. The bench said that the rule of inheritance should be linked to the rights of the Shebait (servant) of the temple.
Facts/General Knowledge
- On 13 August 2014, Lalit became the sixth lawyer to be directly elevated to the Supreme Court bench.
- Although several media houses claimed that Lalit had represented Amit Shah in two high-profile criminal cases related to the fake encounter killings of Sohrabuddin Shaikh and Tulsiram Prajapati in Gujarat, he never represented Amit Shah in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case. Customer was not created. Instead, it was Ram Jethmalani who argued for Shah in the Supreme Court. In 2014, Lalit’s name was recommended for the post of judge in the SC following the controversy involving senior lawyer Gopal Subramaniam, who refused to be considered for the post after accusing the BJP of obstructing his promotion. Had given. Subramaniam claimed that the Modi government had ordered the CBI to “soil” against him because he had assisted the Supreme Court in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case. Lalit was then nominated in place of Subramaniam and his nomination was approved by the Central Government in August 2014.
- He has served as a member of the Legal Services Committee of the Supreme Court of India for two terms. In May 2021, Lalit J was appointed as the acting Chairman of the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA).
- On 4 August 2022, Chief Justice of India Justice NV Ramana wrote to the Central Government recommending the name of Justice UU Lalit to take charge as the next Chief Justice of India (CJI). At that time, Lalit was scheduled to retire on 8 November 2022 after holding the office of Chief Justice of India for a period of seventy-four days as the 49th CJI.
- On a visit to Mumbai in 2022, she visited a school run by Prerna, an NGO working with women and children in red light areas and engaged in business with some women forced by circumstances.
- In June 2022, UU Lalit and his wife Amita Uday Lalit hosted their wedding ceremony in tribal tradition in Araku, Andhra Pradesh.
Uyu Lalit dancing with his wife Amita Udaya Lalit at their tribal wedding ceremony in Araku, Andhra Pradesh
- He is a vegetarian and drinks alcohol.
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