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May 25, 2026 at 10:01 AM IST

“Right to life with dignity encompasses right to life freely without threat of harm of dog bite attack”
— Supreme Court in its judgment permitting euthanising rabid, aggressive stray dogs

Hallucinated Judgments in IBC Case Add to Growing Woes of NCLTS, NCLAT
Last week, the Supreme Court said that the issue of hallucinated judicial verdicts used in Essel Infraprojects case was under review on the administration side. While the court’s action is a promising step towards arresting the misuse of GenAI in judicial work, the reason for this special committee action remains to be as alarming as it is embarrassing. More importantly, it begs the question of how stable the public’s faith is likely to be in India’s courts and quasi courts when specialised tribunals like the NCLT and NCLAT inadvertently fell for these “hallucinated” and made up precedents.

The IBC was brought into place with the intent of quick resolution for bad businesses. But the credibility of this framework takes a serious hit if the cost for quick resolution is actually accuracy and authenticity.

What makes this worse is that it comes at a time when the insolvency ecosystem is already under tremendous pressure. The tribunals are under scrutiny for delayed resolutions, mounting pendency and a closer look at the decisions approved by the tribunals at the highest level of Supreme Court. This incident of AI misuse adds to the microscopic lens the actions of company law tribunals are likely to be under because the issue is no longer restricted to Ai misuse but more a concern over institutional competency. For lenders and distressed-asset investors, that is not a small problem.

Courts: 

  • Foreign crew members of the MSC ELSA-3 that’s sunk petition the Kerala High Court seeking permission to return to their home countries

  • Delhi High Court grants protection to IndiGo airline against coercive action from the tax authorities over GST demand of over 4.5 billion rupees

  • Supreme Court rejects petition challenging forest clearance in Madhya Pradesh for Adani’s coal mining project

  • Delhi High Court seeks response from CDSCO on a PIL petition alleging illegal export of live saving drugs meant for use in India

  • Anil Ambani has sued news agency Press Trust of India as well as Times group’s Times of India and Economic Times for defamation before the Delhi High Court after suing NDTV for the same

  • Supreme Court permits SpiceJet to approach Delhi High Court over deposit of its 1.44 billion rupees  

  • A petition seekingCBI inquiry into the activities of founders of the satire group Cockroach Janata Party filed before the Supreme Court

Others:

  • Seventy judges in Uttar Pradesh’s capital Lucknow cycle to court amid Modi government’s austerity measures

  • Nikhil Narendran of Trilegal appointed President of International Technology Law Association (iTechLaw), a global not-for-profit for lawyers in technology

The Big Listings:

  • Jun 23: Securities Appellate Tribunal to hear appeal by Jane Street challenging SEBI’s move to allegedly refuse access to important documents to the firm in the case against it

  • Jul 15: Delhi High Court to hear Apple Inc.’s plea against India’s competition law’s provisions on global turnover-based penalties on MNC

  • July: Supreme Court to hear PIL petition seeking tighter probe into Anil Ambani’s fraud allegations

  • Jul 27: Delhi High Court to hear Anil Ambani’s defamation lawsuit against NDTV

* The dates of hearing can change and a concrete list is prepared just a day before

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