Official & court sources

• Constitution of India (official text)

  Authoritative Constitution as published by the Legislative Department.

• India Code — central Bare Acts

  Consolidated central Acts and subordinate legislation from official sources.

• Supreme Court of India — judgments

  Official judgment portal; prefer neutral citations where listed.

• eCourts / High Court portals

  Case status and cause lists; use your state High Court’s official site for judgments.

• Law Commission of India — reports

  Reform proposals and in-depth law commission reports for essays and exams.

• Parliament Digital Library — debates

  Hansard-style material for legislative intent and polity answers.

• Indian Kanoon — search

  Free full-text search; cross-check holdings against official reports before filing.

Research papers, syllabi & journals

University syllabi and NLU reading lists change yearly — always use the official PDF from your faculty. For papers and theses, prefer institutional repositories.

• Shodhganga — PhD theses (INFLIBNET)

  Indian doctoral theses; useful for literature review and footnotes.

• SCC Online / Eastern Book (commercial)

  Paid case law databases widely used in practice; use through library access where available.

• Indian Law Institute

  Research, training, and publications — check library and journal access.

• UGC — regulations & learning resources

  Policy context for higher education; pair with your university’s official syllabus PDF.

Suggested reference books

Standard Indian commentaries — obtain through publishers or your college library.

• M.P. Jain—Indian Constitutional Law
• V.N. Shukla—Constitution of India
• D.D. Basu—Introduction to the Constitution of India
• Ratanlal & Dhirajlal—Law books series
• Avtar Singh—Law of Contract
• P.S.A. Pillai—Criminal Law
• Batuk Lal—Criminal Procedure Code
• Sarkar—Law of Evidence
• H.M. Seervai—Constitutional Law of India

Platform roadmap (technical)

• Responsive UI — Mobile-first layouts for chat, acts browser, and reference hub.
• Fast document indexing & search — Server-side indexing of Bare Acts and notes as the corpus grows.
• PDF upload & text extraction — Secure pipeline for syllabi/judgments with OCR where needed.
• AI-generated summaries — Grounded summaries only from uploaded or licensed corpora.
• Secure authentication & cloud progress — Accounts for bookmarks, annotations, and revision streaks.
• API integration for legal databases — Optional connectors to licensed providers under institutional keys.
• Offline reading — Cached articles and PWA-style reading lists for low connectivity.