Short Tenure, Big Questions: New Chief Justice UU Lalit Inherits Key Constitutional Cases
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Justice UU Lalit has a century of family legacy in the legal profession. (File Photo)New Delhi: The new Chief Justice of India, UU Lalit, will have a short tenure of just about two months and a half, but the Supreme Court under him inherits some of the most far-reaching cases, seeking answers to key constitutional questions.From the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, to religion as criterion for citizenship, to reservation on economic basis, to the secret electoral bonds that fund political parties — there's a long list of such pending cases, some of them being carried forward through several CJIs' tenures, not just of his immediate predecessor NV Ramana. Justice Ramana said in a farewell speech, "Listing and posting of matters is one of the areas on which I could no...