AI and Advanced Tech Integration in e-Courts Project
The eCommittee of the Supreme Court of India is leveraging cutting-edge technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Optical Character Recognition (OCR), and Natural Language Processing (NLP) in e-Courts software. These tools support translation, prediction and forecasting, administrative efficiency, automated filing, intelligent scheduling, enhanced case information systems, and litigant communication via chatbots.
AI and Advanced Tech Integration initiatives include:
- Legal Research Analysis Assistant (LegRAA): Aids judges with legal research, document analysis, and judicial decision support.
- Digital Courts 2.1: Offers integrated judgment databases, annotated document management, automated drafting templates, voice-to-text (ASR – SHRUTI), and translation (PANINI) for order dictation. Pilot testing is underway for paperless courts.
- SUPACE (Supreme Court Portal Assistance in Court Efficiency): Experimental tool for understanding case facts, intelligent precedent search, and case identification.
- AI/ML tools with IIT Madras: Integrated into electronic filing for defect identification, metadata extraction, and linking with Integrated Case Management & Information System (ICMIS); prototypes under testing.
AI solutions are limited to controlled pilots to ensure responsible, secure adoption. High Courts will govern operational frameworks via their rules and policies.
Key Achievements in e-Courts Phase-III (as of 30.09.2025)
- Connectivity: 99.5% of court complexes connected to Wide Area Network (10-100 Mbps).
- Case Information System (CIS) 4.0: Implemented across all courts with online user manual.
- Digital Services: Over 4 lakh daily SMS, 6 lakh emails; 35 lakh daily e-Courts portal hits; 14 crore+ total SMS sent.
- Virtual Courts: 29 established; handled 8.96 crore challans (7.84 crore disposed, 86.59 lakh paid totaling ₹895.59 crore).
- Mobile Apps: e-Courts Services (3.38 crore downloads) for case status/cause lists; JustIS (21,955 downloads) for judges’ case management.
- Digitization: High Courts (224.66 crore pages); District Courts (354.87 crore pages).
- Video Conferencing: Available in 3,240 courts and 1,272 jails; 3.81 crore online hearings conducted.
- Live Streaming: Operational in 11 High Courts.
- e-Filing: 5,187 courts enabled; 92.08 lakh cases filed.
- e-Payments: 49.2 lakh court-fee transactions (₹1,215.98 crore); 4.86 lakh fine transactions (₹61.97 crore).
- e-Sewa Kendras: 1,987 operational for online services.
- NSTEP: 6.21 crore e-processes processed (1.61 crore delivered).
- Judgment Search Portal: Hosts 1.69 crore judgments.
- S3WaaS: Powers 730 District Court websites.
ICJS Enhancements (2024 Onwards)
- Nyaya Shruti App: Enables virtual appearances/testimonies via video conferencing for accused, witnesses, police, prosecutors, experts, and prisoners.
- e-Sakshya: Digital evidence recording for accuracy and transparency.
- e-Summons: Faster, reliable court notices and summons delivery.
National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG): Central platform for real-time case management and judicial performance monitoring.
This update was shared by Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Law and Justice and Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal, in Rajya Sabha.
AI and Advanced Tech Integration FAQs
This will be helping the judges for e court cases and will ease the proceedings
Legal Research Analysis Assistant (LegRAA), developed by NIC under eCommittee guidance, aids judges in legal research, document analysis, and decision support by summarizing issues from Supreme Court judgments.
t provides integrated judgment databases, annotated document management, automated drafting templates, voice-to-text (ASR-SHRUTI), and translation (PANINI) for dictation, with pilot testing for paperless courts underway.
Supreme Court Portal Assistance in Court Efficiency (SUPACE) is an experimental AI tool that analyzes case facts, performs intelligent precedent searches, and identifies relevant cases.
