LawGlance, a free, open-source AI legal assistant focused on Indian law, is drawing attention. It uses RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) to search and reference Indian legal statutes and answer questions.
Open-Source · Legal AI for India
LawGlance: a free RAG assistant that answers legal questions with cited Indian statutes
Released under Apache-2.0, it retrieves relevant provisions from India's statutes and generates source-grounded answers — aiming to open access to a legal system spanning roughly 860 central laws.
Free
Apache-2.0 open-source license
273
GitHub stars · 67 forks · 7 contributors
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Statutes supported (as of 2026)
THE PROBLEM IT ADDRESSES
India's legal corpus is vast, and official repositories can be incomplete — leaving citizens and practitioners struggling to find the right provision.
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~860 central statutes
HOW IT WORKS — RETRIEVAL-AUGMENTED GENERATION
User question
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Retrieve statute provisions (ChromaDB vectors)
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Grounded answer with cited sources
Stack: LangChain · ChromaDB · OpenAI API · Streamlit & Django · Redis cache (production)
SUPPORTED LAWS (2026)
Indian Constitution
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023
Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam 2023
Consumer Protection Act 2019
Motor Vehicles Act 1988
Information Technology Act 2000
Workplace Sexual Harassment Act 2013
POCSO Act 2012
PROMISE
Free, open-source, dedicated to Indian law
Source citations to build trust
Simplifies legal jargon for general users
Roadmap: multi-agent, voice & multilingual, doc generation, global reach
OPEN CHALLENGES
Hallucination risk inherent to RAG
Keeping pace with frequent legal amendments
Not formal legal advice (disclaimer included)
Real-world user evaluation still limited
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