Report or White Paper
CCI AI Market Study
The Competition Commission's first market study of AI: concentration, algorithmic collusion, entry barriers and a voluntary self-audit framework
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
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Filter every law, ruling, guideline, report and initiative by category, status, legal effect, state, topic and year.
Report or White Paper
NITI AI for Inclusive Societal Development
NITI Aayog Frontier Tech Hub roadmap proposing a national mission, Digital ShramSetu, to bring AI to India's 490 million informal workers
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Court Ruling
Greenopolis Welfare Association v. Narender Singh
Delhi High Court petition withdrawn on 25 September 2025 after respondents showed that precedents and quotations cited for the petitioner did not exist
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Report or White Paper
Parliamentary committees on deepfakes and AI content
Two 2025 committee reports urging watermarking, labelling, licensing of AI content creators and tighter safe harbour, with no formal government response found
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Report or White Paper
RBI FREE-AI Framework
RBI committee report setting out 7 'Sutras', 6 pillars and 26 recommendations for AI adoption by banks, NBFCs and fintechs
Status checked Oct 14, 2026
Guideline, Advisory or Order
Kerala HC AI Policy
Reported as India's first High Court AI policy for judges: no AI for findings or judgments, no cloud chatbots, audit logs and mandatory training
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Guideline, Advisory or Order
CRI Examination Guidelines 2025
The Patent Office's 2025 examination guidelines for software and AI inventions, with a dedicated chapter on AI/ML, inventorship and disclosure
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Initiative or Incentive
IndiaAI Safety Institute
A non-regulatory hub under the IndiaAI Mission's Safe and Trusted AI pillar for AI-safety research, standards and testing
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Guideline, Advisory or Order
ECI AI-labelling advisories (2025)
ECI requires parties to label AI-generated campaign material, with labels covering 10% of the screen, creator disclosure, record-keeping and three-hour takedowns
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Report or White Paper
MeitY AI governance subcommittee report (2025)
The draft report that proposed an inter-ministerial AI body, a technical secretariat and an AI incident database, and led to the November 2025 governance guidelines
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Court Ruling
Buckeye Trust (ITAT hallucinated citations)
A Rs 669 crore tax appeal in which an ITAT Bengaluru order of December 2024 cited authorities that could not be found, was recalled, and was redecided in 2026
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Court Ruling
Delhi HC deepfake PILs
Public interest petitions that pushed MeitY to form a Committee on Deepfakes; the lead matter is still pending in the Delhi High Court
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Guideline, Advisory or Order
NABCB AIMS Accreditation
QCI's accreditation board sets the criteria under which bodies may certify organisations against ISO/IEC 42001, the AI management system standard
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Guideline, Advisory or Order
MeitY AI advisory (March 2024)
The advisory that first required government permission for 'under-tested' AI models, drew a start-up backlash and was rewritten two weeks later
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Guideline, Advisory or Order
MeitY deepfake advisories (2023)
MeitY's first deepfake advisories, issued after the Rashmika Mandanna video, warned platforms that failing to act would cost them safe harbour
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Court Ruling
Louboutin v. Shoe Boutique (ChatGPT)
Delhi High Court holds that ChatGPT output "cannot be the basis of adjudication of legal or factual issues" in a RED SOLE trademark suit
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Report or White Paper
TRAI AI & Big Data Recommendations
The telecom regulator's call for a cross-sector, risk-based AI law and an independent "AI and Data Authority of India" (AIDAI)
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Guideline, Advisory or Order
TEC AI Fairness Standard
The Telecommunication Engineering Centre's voluntary standard for testing AI systems for bias and issuing a fairness score
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Court Ruling
Jaswinder Singh v. State of Punjab (ChatGPT bail order)
A High Court bail order that quoted ChatGPT's answer on cruelty; bail was refused on the facts and the AI passage was expressly not relied on
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Bill
Digital India Act (proposed)
The proposed successor to the IT Act, meant to rework safe harbour and regulate high-risk AI, which has stalled with no draft bill
Status checked Oct 15, 2026