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ShastraShaw शास्त्र-शॉ · न्याय सबके लिए

An AI legal assistant for India that answers in Hindi, Marathi, or English, grounded in real statute text, with every citation checked before you see it, and honest enough to ask a clarifying question rather than guess.

4 Legal Domains
2,294 Indexed Provisions
14 Source Acts & Procedures
3 Languages
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Democratizing Access to Indian Law

Most Indians face legal situations, a wrongful challan, a domestic dispute, a landlord withholding a deposit, without affordable access to legal advice. ShastraShaw closes that gap with AI grounded directly in official statute text, not guesswork.

Grounded in Real Law

Every legislation source, BNS 2023, BNSS 2023, the Motor Vehicles Act, Hindu Marriage Act, the Domestic Violence Act, and more, is sourced directly from official government publications, parsed section by section. Not a paraphrase, not a summary.

Built for India

Ask in Hindi, Marathi, or English. Responses in Hindi and Marathi read like natural spoken conversation, not a stiff government circular, while legal terms and section numbers stay precise.

Verified, Not Guessed

Every section number the AI cites is checked against what was actually retrieved before the answer reaches you. If a citation can't be verified, the system automatically drafts again with the correct reference, a real anti-hallucination safeguard, not a disclaimer.

What ShastraShaw Covers

Four areas of Indian law, indexed section by section from the actual legislation, plus step-by-step procedures for what to do next.

Traffic Law

Motor Vehicle Laws

Central & Maharashtra Motor Vehicle Acts, the full fine schedule, and procedures for challenging a challan or reporting bribery.

  • Fine schedules & challan rules
  • How to challenge a traffic challan
  • Bribery complaints via the ACB helpline
  • Accident claims & MACT compensation
Criminal Law

BNS & BNSS 2023

India's current criminal codes: Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita. Know your rights during arrest, FIR filing, and bail.

  • FIR filing procedures & the Zero FIR option
  • Bail applications & anticipatory bail
  • Police misconduct complaint hierarchy
  • D.K. Basu arrest guidelines & protections
Rental Law

Maharashtra Rent Control

Tenant and landlord rights under the Maharashtra Rent Control Act, eviction procedures, essential services, and legal rent increase limits.

  • Tenant rights & protections
  • Eviction rules & legal procedures
  • 4% annual rent increase limit
  • Essential services cut-off (Section 41)
Matrimonial & Family

Marriage, Divorce & Protection

Hindu Marriage Act, the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005, and the Dowry Prohibition Act 1961, sourced from the actual bare-act text, not summarized secondhand.

  • Divorce procedures & grounds
  • Filing a DV complaint & protection orders
  • Dowry harassment (BNS 85 / Dowry Act)
  • Maintenance, custody & alimony rights
Balanced by design: dedicated guidance for people seeking protection and people defending against false allegations, not one perspective only.

What Makes This Different

Most AI legal chatbots are a single retrieval call and a hopeful prompt. ShastraShaw checks its own work.

Automatic Citation Verification

Every "Section N" the model cites is checked against what was actually retrieved. An unverified citation triggers an automatic, corrected redraft before you ever see it.

Asks, Instead of Guessing

A question that genuinely spans two legal domains gets a clarifying question, not a blended, confused answer picked at random.

Hybrid Retrieval

BM25 keyword search and dense vector search (InLegalBERT), fused with reciprocal rank fusion, so an exact section number and a plain-language question both find the right law.

Conversation Memory

Follow-up questions are understood in context. "What about for a two-wheeler?" resolves against what you just asked, no need to repeat yourself.

Bilingual, Naturally

Hindi and Marathi answers are tuned for everyday spoken register, not machine-translated government notice language.

Actionable, Not Just Legal Text

Step-by-step filing procedures, helpline numbers, portal URLs, and required documents alongside every legal citation.

How It Works

From your question to a verified legal answer: a four-stage pipeline with checks at every step.

01

Ask

Type or speak in Hindi, Marathi, or English. Language is auto-detected and translated for retrieval.

02

Route & Retrieve

Hybrid BM25 + vector search finds relevant law. Genuinely ambiguous, cross-domain questions trigger a clarifying question instead of a guess.

03

Generate & Verify

GPT-4o drafts an answer from the retrieved law. Every citation is checked, and re-drafted automatically if it doesn't match.

04

Answer & Remember

Delivered in your language, with sources cited, and remembered, so your next question can be a natural follow-up.

Built with
FastAPI Hybrid BM25 + FAISS GPT-4o InLegalBERT MarianMT SQLite Session Memory PyMuPDF Python

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Hindi, Marathi & English · Voice input · Verified citations · Sector-aware answers