The last win came on the 2018 end-of-year tour, which was the Springboks’ seventh victory in a row over Les Bleus.ĪLSO READ: Mzwandile Stick ‘disappointed’ with SA ‘A’ walloping by Munster Yet, as South Africa heads into this weekend’s game, the statistics show that they are currently on a highly-impressive winning streak against the French. That is just a reflection of how much progress France have made in recent years.ĪLSO READ | KOLBE TO KEEP KEY GOAL-KICKING ROLE FOR SPRINGBOKS The Springboks are fourth on the world rankings, and will be viewed as underdogs this Saturday. NEW DELHI: Chief Justice of India, UU Lalit, one of the most humble and patient CJIs who addressed every lawyer appearing in his court as Sir and Ma’am irrespective of their seniority, demitted office on Tuesday after a short tenure of 74 days.Substitutes: 16 Malcolm Marx, 17 Steven Kitshoff, 18 Vincent Koch, 19 Marvin Orie, 20 Deon Fourie, 21 Cobus Reinach, 22 Manie Libbok, 23 Makazole MapimpiĪLSO READ | ELTON JANTJIES ADMITS TO AFFAIR AFTER ‘WORST EXPERIENCE’ OF HIS LIFEįrance are currently second on the world rugby rankings and many pundits see them as the likely favourites for the 2023 World Cup.
Six constitution benches were set up in the brief period of 74 days when Lalit was at the helm.
He had also delivered the ruling of the erstwhile royal family of Travancore having management right over the historic Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerala, one of the richest shrines. Justice Lalit-led bench had also junked NIA’s plea challenging default bail granted to lawyer activist Sudha Bharadwaj in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon case by the Bombay HC and also granted relief with regular bail on medical grounds to activist and poet Dr P Varavara Rao, an accused in the same case. As a CJI, bench headed by him, granted interim bail to social activist Teesta Setalvad, set aside HC’s order of accepting pleas seeking ED probe against Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren for alleged money laundering through several shell companies and also granted bail to Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan in the “Hathras Conspiracy case”.ĬJI Lalit-led bench also acquitted three men who were given death penalties for gangrape and murder of a 19 year old woman at Chhawla in Delhi in 2012 and paved way for hanging of LeT terrorist by dismissing his pleas seeking review of the SC verdict upholding his death penalty for sensational attack in 2000 Red Fort attack case.Īs SC judge, he was part of the bench that had ruled the practice of triple talaq as unconstitutional. But, CJI Lalit was part of the bench that gave a minority view and held the amendment as destroying the “equality code”. On his last day, a bench led by him by upheld the validity of 10% quota granted to the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) with a 3:2 majority. With a view to reduce pendency, the top court also disposed of 13,000 matters that were lying in several defects for several years but were being maintained in the files.
The SC under his aegis was successful in taking the slice out of the mounting areas by disposing of more than 10,000 matters. The country’s topmost court, along with lawyers, journalists and common man, under his leadership, had witnessed many “firsts” and “historic and unprecedented moves”. Appointed as 49th CJI on August 27, 2022, he was the second CJI to be elevated from bench to the bar and sixth judge to be elevated directly to the Supreme Court.
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