NEW DELHI: Justice DY Chandrachud was formally named because the fiftieth Chief Justice of India by CJI UU Lalit at a gathering of all Supreme Court docket judges on Tuesday.
The CJI handed over the copy of his letter of advice to Justice Chandrachud, who is ready to change into the fiftieth Chief Justice of India on November 9.
Elevated as a decide of the Supreme Court docket on Might 13, 2016, Justice Chandrachud is the son of the longest serving CJI Y V Chandrachud who was the top of the judiciary from February 22, 1978 to July 11, 1985.
CJI Lalit will demit workplace on November 8, after a short tenure of 74 days.
A day later, Justice Chandrachud will oath as the subsequent CJI.
Justice Chandrachud would have a tenure of two years and demit workplace on November 10, 2024.
The Supreme Court docket judges retire on the age of 65.
In response to the Memorandum of Process (MoP), which governs the method of appointment of judges within the larger judiciary, the outgoing CJI initiates the method of naming the successor after getting a communication from the Legislation ministry.
The MoP says the senior-most decide of the apex courtroom is taken into account match to carry the workplace of the CJI and the views of the outgoing head of the judiciary need to be sought “at an acceptable time”.
The MoP, nevertheless, doesn’t specify the time restrict for the initiation of the method of recommending the identify of the successor CJI.
Justice Lalit was a famend senior advocate earlier than he turned the decide of the apex courtroom.
He was appointed a decide of the Supreme Court docket on August 13, 2014.
Justice Lalit has been the second CJI who was immediately elevated to the Supreme Court docket bench from the Bar.
Justice SM Sikri, who turned the thirteenth CJI in January 1971, was the primary lawyer to be elevated on to the highest courtroom bench in March 1964.
Born on November 9, 1957, in Maharashtra’s Solapur, his father, UR Lalit, was an extra decide on the Nagpur bench of the Bombay Excessive Court docket and a senior advocate on the Supreme Court docket.
UU Lalit enrolled as an advocate in June 1983 after specialising in felony regulation and practising on the Bombay Excessive Court docket from 1983 to 1985.
He shifted his observe to Delhi in January 1986, and in April 2004, he was designated as a senior advocate by the highest courtroom.
He was later appointed a particular public prosecutor for the CBI to conduct the trial within the 2G spectrum allocation case.
(With inputs from businesses)Watch Justice DY Chandrachud to change into fiftieth CJI.
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