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
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Filter every law, ruling, guideline, report and initiative by category, status, legal effect, state, topic and year.
Court Ruling
Sadhguru v. Igor Isakov
Delhi High Court's 30 May 2025 "dynamic+" injunction against AI deepfakes of spiritual leader Sadhguru used in scams and false endorsements
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Guideline, Advisory or Order
AI Competency Framework for Public Sector Officials
IndiaAI framework, launched 6 March 2025, defining the AI skills government officials need to adopt and oversee AI in public services
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Initiative or Incentive
AIKosh
India's national repository of datasets, AI models and use cases, built under the IndiaAI Mission with permission-based access
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Initiative or Incentive
IndiaAI foundation models
The IndiaAI Mission's programme to fund India-built large, small and multimodal models, from Sarvam AI to the IIT Bombay-led BharatGen
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
Akshay Tanna v. John Doe
Delhi High Court restrains impersonators who used a deepfake video of a private-equity executive to run investment scams, and decrees the suit in December 2024
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Initiative or Incentive
IndiaAI compute capacity
The IndiaAI Mission pillar that empanels private GPU clouds and offers subsidised compute to startups, researchers and government bodies
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
Initiative or Incentive
AI Centres of Excellence
Government-funded AI research hubs in agriculture, health, sustainable cities and education, announced in successive Union Budgets and in October 2024
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
Initiative or Incentive
Telangana AI initiatives
Telangana's layered state AI programme: the 2020 AI Framework and T-AIM, the 2024 AI-Powered Telangana strategy, the TGDeX data exchange and a planned AI City
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Court Ruling
Arijit Singh v. Codible Ventures
Bombay High Court order of 26 July 2024 restraining AI voice-cloning platforms from imitating singer Arijit Singh
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Court Ruling
Jackie Shroff v. The Peppy Store
Delhi High Court restrains an unlicensed AI chatbot and merchandise sellers over Jackie Shroff's persona, while declining to enjoin a YouTube meme video
Status checked Oct 14, 2026
Guideline, Advisory or Order
ECI deepfake advisory (May 2024)
ECI's first deepfake-specific directions to political parties, requiring removal of deepfake audio and video within three hours during the 2024 Lok Sabha polls
Status checked Oct 14, 2026
Initiative or IncentiveLandmark
IndiaAI Mission
The Union Cabinet's March 2024 five-year Rs 10,371.92 crore programme for compute, models, datasets, skills, startups and safe AI
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