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The Supreme Court of India has constituted an AI committee which is liable for conceptualising, implementing, and monitoring the usage of artificial quality successful the Indian judiciary, Minister of State for Law and Justice Arjun Ram Meghwal informed the Rajya Sabha connected Thursday (December 11, 2025).
Mr. Meghwal said that nether the 3rd signifier of the eCourts project, which was approved for four years from 2023-24, a sum of ₹53.57 crore has been allocated for aboriginal technological advancements, specified arsenic AI and blockchain.
“AI is to beryllium integrated successful important areas of judiciary including betterment successful administrative efficiency, prediction of lawsuit pendency, automation of processes and streamlining of tribunal operations. The tools and platforms developed nether the eCourts Project utilizing AI are meant to beryllium utilized by the judiciary across the country, successful accordance with the Detailed Project Report (DPR) of the Phase-III of the eCourts Project,” Mr. Meghwal said successful a written effect to a question from Gujarat MP Govindbhai Laljibhai Dholakia, asking whether AI is being utilized successful the tract of Indian jurisprudence, and the government’s aboriginal plans successful this regard.
Improving judicial efficiency
Detailing the scope of AI-based aviator projects aimed astatine improving judicial efficiency, the Minister added that the SC, successful adjacent coordination with IIT Madras, has developed and deployed AI and ML-based tools integrated with its physics filing software, successful bid to place defects.
“The entree of the proto-type has been granted to 200 Advocates-on-Record. The Supreme Court of India successful collaboration with IIT Madras is besides investigating the prototypes of AI and ML tools for curing defects, meta information extraction and integration with the physics filing module and the lawsuit absorption software, namely Integrated Case Management & Information System (ICMIS),” helium said.
Further, an AI-based tool, the Supreme Court Portal Assistance successful Court Efficiency (SUPACE), is successful the experimental signifier of development. This instrumentality aims to make a module to recognize the factual matrix of cases with an intelligent hunt of the precedents, isolated from identifying the cases, Mr. Meghwal said.
He explained that the existent scope of AI-based solutions stay constricted to controlled aviator deployments with the nonsubjective of ensuring responsible, secure, and applicable adoption. While the e-Committee of the Supreme Court is successful the process of evaluating these aviator initiatives, the formulation and regularisation of operational frameworks successful this respect volition beryllium governed by the rules of business and policies of the acrophobic High Courts.
