The Supreme Court of India is seeking stakeholder suggestions on its recently released draft regulations on artificial intelligence (AI), aiming to regulate use in courts and build an AI adoption framework in the judicial system.
The Regulations for Use of AI in Court, 2026 (draft rules) are based on principles of human primacy, transparency, accountability, cyber/data protection and integrity, and judicial independence.
The authorities will determine the areas of the court process where AI systems shall be used. The draft rules place the use of AI subject to human judgment and judicial authority, limiting AI systems to being only assistive and not a substitution of independent judicial authority.
The draft rules prohibit judicial outcomes, or any part thereof, to be solely based on algorithmic decision-making and/or the basis of AI-generated information.
Any officer making any decision through the assistance of AI shall be accountable for their decisions and cannot invoke the outputs of an AI system, the opaqueness of a black box system, or the occurrence of hallucination, as a defence to avoid such accountability.
Stakeholders can share their comments with the member secretary of the AI committee of the court through email on office.regcc@sci.nic.in by 20 June 2026.
The rules also provide for an apex body within the Supreme Court, technical, judicial, infrastructure and finance, case and data management, cybersecurity and AI committees, an AI register, incident database and content verification authority and a grievance redressal process among others.
