Artificial Intelligence in the Indian Legal System: Navigating Adoption, Challenges, and Implications

Today Indian jurisprudence is in crossroad due to the backlog crisis that is threatening constitutional promise of having a speedy justice.The introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become not only a potential but an essential requirement of change within their courts as the number of cases goes beyond 50 million This study design is a systematic way of negotiating this rocky terrain of AI penetration in this system.It considers the two-pronged strategy of the policy of the Centre, which overlay the primary digitization of the courts via the e-Courts Mission Mode Project on the wider ecosystem development throughout the IndiaAI Mission.The examination of the continued application of AI includes both applications built in the Supreme Court and innovations built in the private LegalTech industry to the controversial use of facial recognition technology in the law enforcement practice.It claims that even though AI embodies transformative possibilities, implementation is confronted with the problems that overlap in a combination of existing socio-equilibrium disparities and new regulatory frames.The risk of algorithmic bias, the perennial existing digital divide between substantial sections of society, and the shortcomings of existing data protection regulation are the major barriers which are rigorously analysed.This article ends with a road map to responsible deployment after a comparative analysis between the emerging regulatory approach in India and the global model.It invokes the rights-based, constitutionally enlightened method with utmost respect towards transparency, accountability and equity to keep the quest towards efficiency not prejudiced of the principles underlining justice.