SC Senior Advocate Uday U. Lalit to be elevated to Post of Supreme Court Judge

After former Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium’s withdrawal from candidature from judgeship, Supreme Court senior Advocate Uday U. Lalit will reportedly be elevated to the post. Lalit will soon meet Chief Justice of India, R.M. Lodha for the confirmation.

Lalit had been in the lawyer's panel for the Maharashtra government and the Centre for 15 years and five years respectively. He appeared for actor Salman Khan in the black buck poaching case. He also appeared for former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh in the corruption case He represented former cricketer and BJP MP Navjot Singh Sidhu, in the culpable homicide not amounting to murder case.

Advocate Lalit had also appeared for former Gujarat home minister Amit Shah, who is charge sheeted in the fake encounter case to eliminate Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Prajapati. His appointment as CBI’s special public prosecutor was however opposed by Congress as had not worked under a state government or the central government for at least seven years, which was an eligibility requirement.

President Pranab Mukherjee has already given assent to the names of Senior Advocate Rohinton Nariman and the Chief Justices of the Calcutta and Orissa High Courts, Arun Mishra and Adarsh Kumar Goel respectively, for appointment as judges of the Supreme Court. Their names were forwarded to the President by the Law Ministry a few days ago, after it turned down the elevation of the former Solicitor-General of India,Gopal Subramanium, who was among the four names recommended by the Supreme Court collegium last month.