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The stakes
The Supreme Court now calls this misconduct
AI that invents case law isn't a productivity risk. It's a professional one.
“Citing AI-generated fake precedents is advocate misconduct; judgments based on them are void.”
In In Re: Use of AI & False Precedents, the Court set aside NCLT/NCLAT orders in which three of the six cited judgments did not exist, demanded “zero tolerance,” and asked the Bar Council to frame norms.
Business Standard
‘Methyl isocyanate of law’: Supreme Court sets aside AI-generated verdicts.
Read the reportIncome Tax Appellate Tribunal · 2024
₹669-crore order recalled over ChatGPT-generated fake Supreme Court citations.
Read the reportDelhi High Court · 2025
AI-drafted petition invented paragraphs 73–74 of a judgment that has only 27.
Read the reportThis is exactly what Vidhi is built to make impossible.
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Research a point of law, summarise a judgment, compare authorities, build a chronology — in any of 22 Indian languages, every answer sourced.
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Why Vidhi
A confident sentence isn't a citation
A general model gives you a fluent answer with a case that may not exist. Vidhi gives you the provision it came from.
“The Supreme Court in Suresh Menon v. Union of India (2019) 4 SCC 221 held that the notice requirement is mandatory…”
No source · this citation does not exist
The mandatory-notice holding is in Section 138, proviso (b), applied in Rajesh Kumar v. State (2019) 5 SCC 4211
Opens to para 14 of the actual judgment
| Capability | ChatGPT | Claude | Gemini | Vidhi |
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| Trained on India’s statutes & judgments | ||||
| Every citation resolves to a real document | ||||
| Opens the source, to the exact passage | ||||
| Flags overruled / doubtful authority | ||||
| Tells you when the evidence is thin |
…and every other general-purpose model. None are trained on India’s case law or can show you a source — which is how ChatGPT-fabricated citations reached the court record (Mata v. Avianca; Buckeye Trust).
§ The proof
See where every word comes from
Every citation opens to the exact passage in the real document — a Supreme Court order to its paragraph, a statute to its proviso. Not a link out; the actual holding, highlighted.
- Click any citation → the judgment or statute, at the exact page or paragraph
- The passage that supports the answer is highlighted for you
- Fabricated citations can't enter the answer — only resolvable sources are cited
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION · Criminal Appeal No. 812 of 2019
versus
JUDGMENT
13. The short question is whether, absent a written demand within the statutory period, a complaint under Section 138 is maintainable.
14. The statutory notice under the proviso to Section 138 is not an empty formality. Where the payee fails to make the demand in writing within thirty days of the receipt of information of dishonour, the complaint is not maintainable and the drawer cannot be subjected to prosecution.
15. The appeal is accordingly allowed.
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Questions, answered
- Can Vidhi cite a case that doesn't exist?
- No. Every citation shown in an answer resolves to a real judgment or statute in our corpus — if it can't be resolved to a source, it doesn't appear as a citation. And you can open the source document for any citation, at the exact passage.
- Which courts and laws does it cover?
- India's central statutes and Supreme Court judgments natively — 36,409 SC judgments and around 329,000 statute provisions. High Court coverage is served through integrated Indian Kanoon. Vidhi tells you what it grounded an answer on, and when the evidence is thin.
- How is it different from ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini?
- General-purpose models have no Indian legal corpus and can't show you a source — which is exactly how advocates have ended up citing cases that don't exist (Mata v. Avianca; the Buckeye Trust order recalled by the ITAT). Vidhi answers only from real, retrievable Indian law and opens the document behind every citation.
- Does it replace my own review?
- No. Vidhi is AI-assisted and attorney review is required. Its job is to make that review take seconds instead of hours — by making every citation verifiable to its source.
- Can Vidhi help build a chronology for trial prep?
- Yes — chronology building from facts and issues is one of Vidhi's core research capabilities, so you can turn a matter's documents into an ordered timeline instead of assembling one by hand from the file.
- Can I chat with a specific Act or judgment directly?
- Yes — open any statute or judgment and ask it questions grounded in that document ("what changed in the 2018 amendment," "what's the ratio here"), cited to the section or paragraph. It's the same verified-citation engine, scoped to one document.