Uday Umesh Lalit

Uday Umesh Lalit
Uday Lalit in 2024
49th Chief Justice of India
In office
27 August 2022  8 November 2022
PresidentDroupadi Murmu
Preceded byN. V. Ramana
Succeeded byDhananjaya Y. Chandrachud
Judge of the Supreme Court of India
In office
13 August 2014  26 August 2022
Nominated byRajendra Mal Lodha
Appointed byPranab Mukherjee
Personal details
Born (1957-11-09) 9 November 1957
Solapur, Bombay State (present-day Maharashtra), India
SpouseAmita Lalit
ParentU.R. Lalit (father)
Residence(s)5, Krishna Menon Marg, Sunehri Bagh, New Delhi, India

Uday Umesh Lalit (born 9 November 1957) is an Indian lawyer and former Supreme Court Judge, who served as the 49th Chief Justice of India. Previously, he has served as a judge of Supreme Court of India. Prior to his elevation as a judge of the supreme court, he practised as a senior advocate at the Supreme Court. Justice Lalit is one of the eleven senior counsels who have been directly elevated to the Supreme Court. He is currently ‘Distinguished Visiting Professor’ at Ashank Desai Centre for Policy Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and Distinguished Visiting Professor at West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences.