How we verify legal sources
LawSaathi grounds every response in Indian statutes and judgments — not the AI model's memory. Here is the exact pipeline.
1. Authoritative primary sources
We ingest bare acts and codes from the India Code portal and Ministry gazettes — BNS, BNSS, BSA, the Constitution, Contract Act, IPC/CrPC/IEA (for legacy context), Consumer Protection Act, IT Act and more. Every chunk is tagged with the section number and enactment year.
2. Judgments from official reporters
Case-law summaries are drawn from Supreme Court of India, e-Courts (High Courts) and other public reporters. Citations always include court, bench, date and neutral citation where available.
3. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
When you ask a question, we retrieve the most relevant statutory sections and precedents from our vector index first, then ground the AI response in those documents. The AI is instructed to cite the exact section or judgment and to say 'I don't know' if the corpus doesn't cover it.
4. Confidence & disclosure
Every answer surfaces a confidence badge and the source chunks it used. LawSaathi is an information tool — not a substitute for a lawyer. Time-sensitive matters should always be verified with counsel.