Overview
- Chief Justice Surya Kant named Justice P. S. Narasimha to chair the Supreme Court’s Artificial Intelligence Committee with Justices Sanjeev Sachdeva, Raja Vijayaraghavan V., Anoop Chitkara and Suraj Govindaraj as members.
- Registrar (Technology) Anupam Patra will serve as member-secretary and convener, with e-Committee member Ashish J. Shiradhonkar as a special invitee.
- Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal told the Rajya Sabha the panel is tasked with conceptualising, implementing and monitoring the use of AI across the judiciary to improve efficiency, accessibility and transparency.
- Under Phase-III of the eCourts project, ₹53.57 crore has been allocated for future technologies including AI and blockchain to back development and rollout.
- The Supreme Court, working with IIT Madras, is piloting AI/ML tools for defect identification, metadata extraction and integration with e-filing and ICMIS, has granted prototype access to 200 Advocates-on-Record, and continues experimental work on the SUPACE assistant.