As the 49th Chief Justice of India, Uday Umesh Lalit will have no dearth of challenges — from key constitutional questions to the appointment of judges — but he will have a century of personal legacy, too, to draw upon.
He will be in the office for 74 days.
The Lalit family from Maharashtra has 102 years and counting. His grandfather, Ranganath Lalit, was a lawyer in Solapur much before India’s independence.
Today when Justice UU Lalit took oath as CJI, three generations of his family will be present.
His 90-year-old father, Umesh Ranganath Lalit, was there. The veteran served as a high court judge after a long career as an advocate in his home state.
Also present were Justice Lalit’s wife Amita Lalit, who runs a school in Noida, and their two sons, Harshad and Shreeyash. While both of the sons studied engineering, Shreeyash Lalit later turned to law.
His wife Raveena is a lawyer too. Harshad Lalit works as a researcher and lives in the US with his wife Radhika.
