Timeline of AI law in India

Advisory on obscene content

MeitY advises intermediaries to curb obscene, pornographic and vulgar content.

MeitY advisory on obscene content

MeitY's Cyber Laws Division advises intermediaries to curb obscene, pornographic and vulgar content, warning of loss of safe harbour.

MediaNama describes BIS role in AI standards

Coverage of TEC's AI incident-database standard notes that BIS develops and adopts AI standards aligned with international work, voluntary unless mandated.

Krishnan on a new law

MeitY Secretary S. Krishnan says his inclination is to avoid a new AI law.

High Court flags AI-generated petitions

In Blue Star Aluminium & Door House v. The Federal Bank, Justice M.A. Abdul Hakhim observes that some writ petitions seem AI-generated and that advocates cannot explain their pleadings.

DPIIT working paper reported

A DPIIT committee working paper proposes a mandatory blanket licence for AI training with statutory royalties.

Grok image editing misused

From around Christmas, users on X prompt Grok to undress or sexualise photographs of real people.

TEC 57090:2025 released

TEC's listing records release of the standard on the schema and taxonomy of an AI incident database.

Bihar results

Counting for the Bihar Assembly election and by-elections concludes the first polls held under the October 2025 rules.

India AI Governance Guidelines

MeitY releases guidelines that recommend a voluntary national AI incident database.

Guidelines released

MeitY releases the India AI Governance Guidelines, with seven sutras, six pillars and an action plan.

Adalat.AI mandatory statewide

Use of Adalat.AI for recording depositions becomes mandatory across Kerala's courts, with a fall-back only to tools approved by the High Court's Directorate of IT.

AI Governance Guidelines cite the framework

The India AI Governance Guidelines cite the framework and recommend training for officials, regulators and civil servants.

Government publishes BIS list of AI standards

Annexure 6 of the India AI Governance Guidelines lists 26 published and five developing BIS standards on AI and related topics.

India AI Governance Guidelines

MeitY's guidelines list the ICMR guidelines among sectoral AI documents and call for sector-appropriate enforcement.

Red Fort blast content advisory

MeitY orders platforms to curb content relating to the Red Fort blast, with warnings of penalties for not reporting (as noted by MediaNama).

Expanded advisory

Advisory No. 4/Misc/2025/SDR/Vol.XX adds 10% labels, creator disclosure, three-hour takedown and record-keeping under Article 324.

Expanded directions

A new advisory continues the 2024 letter, adding 10% labels, disclosure of the creating entity, record-keeping and a three-hour takedown of misrepresenting content.

MeitY draft rules

MeitY publishes draft IT Rules amendments proposing a 10% minimum label for synthetic content.

Draft synthetic-content rules

MeitY publishes draft amendments to the IT Rules on synthetically generated information.

Draft guidance released

CDSCO issues a draft guidance on medical device software for a 30-day comment period.

CDSCO draft medical device software guidance

CDSCO issues a draft guidance on medical device software, including AI-enabled software; a final version follows in 2026.

ECI warns against AI deepfakes

The ECI cautions parties against AI deepfakes and requires prominent labelling of synthetic campaign content.

Bihar MCC in force

Bihar Assembly election and eight by-elections announced; the Model Code of Conduct applies, including to online content.

Adalat.AI directed for depositions

An office memorandum directs that witness depositions be recorded primarily with the Adalat.AI voice-to-text tool in all courts from 1 November 2025, after a pilot in four Ernakulam courts.

Home Affairs committee report

The committee asks CERT-In to coordinate monitoring and issue deepfake detection alerts.

SpicyIP critique

SpicyIP publishes "Bench and Bot", welcoming the audit and training provisions but criticising the exemption of the High Court itself.

Google LLC v. Controller of Patents

The Calcutta High Court upholds a Section 3(k) rejection, with the Controller having relied on the 2017 test.

Policy document published

The Leaflet publishes the policy PDF and an explainer on what it provides.

AI policy circulated to the district judiciary

A Joint Registrar's Official Memorandum (HCKL/7490/2025-DI-3-HC KERALA) transmits the Policy Regarding Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools in District Judiciary to all District Judges and Chief Judicial Magistrates. Bar & Bench reports it as a first in the country.

AIBOM guidelines reported

MediaNama reports on the AIBOM guidelines and what they mean for AI procurement.

Technical Guidelines Version 2.0

CERT-In issues guidelines on SBOM, QBOM, CBOM, AIBOM and HBOM, recommending AIBOMs in government AI procurement.

Final CRI Guidelines 2025

The final Guidelines, including a chapter on AI/ML/DL inventions, are published and apply with immediate effect.

Drafting committee constituted

MeitY forms a drafting committee chaired by Prof. Balaraman Ravindran.

CRI Guidelines 2025 published

The Patent Office's guidelines on computer related inventions add a chapter on AI/ML inventions, including inventorship.

Draft robustness standard issued

Draft TEC 57070:2025 goes out for comments until 5 August 2025.

DPIIT copyright committee formed

The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade sets up a committee on AI and copyright, whose recommendations the Guidelines await.

Draft CRI Guidelines 2025 released

The Patent Office invites comments on the draft; the deadline is later extended to 30 April 2025.

MeitY reaches out to X over Grok

The IT Ministry says it is examining why Grok replied with Hindi slang and abusive language; no formal notice is reported.

Framework launched

IndiaAI launches the Competency Framework for AI for Public Sector Officials at the launch of AIKosh and the IndiaAI Compute Portal.

iGOT-AI announced

An AI-powered personalised content recommendation system for government officials on iGOT Karmayogi is announced alongside the framework.

Kerala HC bench records ChatGPT search

In Dr. S. Ganapathy v. Union of India (W.P.(C) 2449/2021), a Division Bench notes that it searched online and that ChatGPT "provided us with the prevalent policies" on brain death; it does not rely on the chart for its decision.

Delhi Assembly poll

First election held after the labelling advisory, following an FIR over an AAP AI video of Modi and Shah.

Caleb Suresh Motupalli v. Controller of Patents

The Madras High Court rejects an AI-related claim for insufficient disclosure under Section 10(4); the decision is later quoted in the Guidelines.

First labelling advisory

Advisory No. 491/Social media-SOP/2025/Communication asks parties to label AI-generated content and add disclaimers to campaign ads.

AI labelling advisory

The ECI builds on the 2024 letter, asking parties to label AI-generated campaign content.

Subcommittee report for consultation

MeitY publishes the 'Report on AI Governance Guidelines Development' and invites public comment; the deadline is extended to 27 February 2025.