Dad catches CJI’s ‘first day, first show’ from front row

Finding senior advocate U R Lalit standing in court, a few senior advocates offered him a seat. But he refused, not wanting to miss even a second. He kept standing at the corner of the front row, keenly watching the proceedings.

- AmitAnand Choudhary

New Delhi: Chief Justice of India U U Lalit appears to have followed in the footsteps of his father, U R Lalit, who shifted his practice to the Supreme Court after the Emergency was lifted and built a lucrative career in criminal law in the early 1980s, coming to be regarded as one of the leading lights in the field.

CJI U U Lalit too entered the legal profession and within a decade of his practice in the SC, got recognition for his incisive legal mind in criminal law.