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Government platforms · India

e-Gazette of India — the actual, legally definitive text

Here's a fact that surprises people who've only used India Code: the Gazette, not India Code, is the legally authoritative version of a notification or Act. India Code is the government's own convenient repository, but if a lawyer needs…

Private, Non-Profit & Media Platforms · India

Indian Kanoon — the one every law student actually uses

Ask any Indian law student which free case-law site they open first, and the honest answer is almost always Indian Kanoon, not a government portal. Built by a single computer scientist, Sushant Sinha, starting in 2007, it now holds over…

Private, Non-Profit & Media Platforms · India

CaseMine — the citation-network approach to reading a judgment

CaseMine's pitch is different from a plain search box: it visualises how cases cite each other, so instead of reading one judgment in isolation, you can see the web of precedent around it — what it relied on, and what later cited it. The…

Private, Non-Profit & Media Platforms · India

Live Law — daily judgments, explained in plain English, the same day

Live Law occupies an unusual niche: part legal-news outlet, part judgment archive. It publishes same-day summaries of Supreme Court and High Court rulings alongside the actual order as a downloadable PDF, which means you often get both…