Category : Appointment/ResignationPublished on: September 06 2022
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Justice D Y Chandrachud, a second senior-most judge in the Supreme Court, has been nominated as executive chairman of the National Legal Services Authority with immediate effect.
Justice Chandrachud replaces Justice UU Lalit, who took over as the 49th Chief Justice of India on August 27.
President Droupadi Murmu nominated Justice Chandrachud to head the NALSA as executive chairman under the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987.
The Chief Justice of India is the patron-in-chief of the NALSA.
The term of Justice Chandrachud to the post would last till November 8.
Constituted under the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987, the NALSA is mandated to provide free legal services to the weaker sections of society.
