Justice Lalit will take over from CJI NV Ramana on August 27.

New Delhi:

Justice Uday Umesh Lalit, the Supreme Court judge and Chief Justice of India to be held in August, began the hearing in his court at 9.30 am on Friday.

During this, Justice Lalit said, "If children can go to school at 7 in the morning, then why can't judges and lawyers start their day at 9 o'clock?"

Court number two of Justice Lalit started hearing the cases an hour before the normal time. 

Actually, the Supreme Court bench starts hearing five days a week at 10.30 am.

Courts sit till 4 pm.

During this, a lunch break is taken for one hour between 1 pm and 2 pm.

But the bench of Justice Lalit, Justice S Ravindra Bhat and Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia sat on Friday at 9.30 am and started hearing the cases.

Senior advocate and former Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi, who appeared in one of the cases, expressed happiness over the early hearing of the bench.

He said, "This time of 9.30 is a more appropriate time to start the courts. To this Justice Lalit replied that he always believed that the court should sit early. We should sit at 9 am. 

He said, "I have always said that if our children can go to school at 7 in the morning, why can't we come to court at 9?"

Justice Lalit suggested that on days when there was no need for long hearings, the benches of the Supreme Court should start at 9 am and rise at 11.30 am for a half-hour break.

Start again at 12 noon and finish by 2 pm, this will give you more time to work in the evening.

Significantly, Justice Lalit is in line to become the Chief Justice of India (CJI) in August.

Justice Lalit will take over from CJI NV Ramana on August 27.

However, his tenure is not long and he will remain in the post till November 8.

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