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ShastraShaw शास्त्र-शॉ

Your AI-powered Indian Law Assistant. Get accurate, actionable legal guidance in Hindi, Marathi, and English grounded in official Indian statutes.

4 Legal Domains
50+ Legal Documents
1000+ Law Sections
3 Languages
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Democratizing Access to Indian Law

Most Indians face complex legal situations without access to affordable legal advice. ShastraShaw bridges this gap using AI providing instant, accurate, and actionable legal guidance directly from official Indian statutes.

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Grounded in Law

Every answer is retrieved directly from official Indian legal documents - BNS 2023, BNSS 2023, Motor Vehicle Acts, Hindu Marriage Act, Maharashtra Rent Control Act, and more. No hallucinations, only verified law.

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Built for India

Supports Hindi, Marathi, and English. Understands the Indian legal context, local procedures, police complaint mechanisms, consumer courts, district tribunals, and online grievance portals.

Actionable Guidance

Not just legal text - step-by-step procedures, helpline numbers, online portal URLs, required documents, and exact section citations so you know exactly what to do next.

What ShastraShaw Covers

Four major areas of Indian law, with detailed provisions, procedures, and actionable guidance sourced from actual legislation.

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Traffic Law

Motor Vehicle Laws

Central & Maharashtra Motor Vehicle Acts, traffic fine schedules, and procedural guidance for challenging challans and reporting bribery.

  • Fine schedules & challan rules
  • How to challenge a traffic challan
  • Bribery complaint via ACB helpline
  • Accident claims & procedures
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Criminal Law

BNS & BNSS 2023

India's new criminal codes - Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita. Know your rights during arrest and complaint filing.

  • FIR filing procedures & online options
  • Bail applications & your rights
  • Police misconduct complaints
  • D.K. Basu guidelines & protections
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Rental Law

Maharashtra Rent Control

Maharashtra Rent Control Act - tenant and landlord rights, eviction procedures, essential services protections, and legal rent increase limits.

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

Hindu Marriage & Family

Hindu Marriage Act, BNS 498A/85, Dowry Prohibition Act, and Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act - know your rights.

  • Divorce procedures & grounds
  • Domestic violence protections
  • Dowry harassment (BNS 85)
  • Maintenance & alimony rights

Why ShastraShaw?

A purpose-built RAG system combining vector search, LLM generation, and structured legal knowledge.

Bilingual Support

Ask in Hindi, Marathi, or English. Automatic language detection and translation using HuggingFace MarianMT models.

Voice Input & Output

Speak your legal question using the microphone. Answers are read aloud in your language when using voice input.

Semantic Vector Search

FAISS IndexFlatIP searches 1000+ indexed legal sections using BAAI/bge-base-en embeddings for precise retrieval.

GPT-4o Powered

Sector-specific system prompts with domain expertise. Returns structured answers with section citations, helplines, and portal URLs.

Source Attribution

Every answer includes expandable source citations - exact section numbers from the referenced Act with document name.

Actionable Procedures

Beyond legal text - dedicated knowledge base with helpline numbers, portal URLs, required documents, and step-by-step filing guides.

How It Works

From your question to a grounded legal answer in seconds - a four-stage RAG pipeline.

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Ask Your Question

Type or speak in Hindi, Marathi or English. The system auto-detects your language and translates if needed.

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Semantic Retrieval

FAISS searches 1000+ law sections using cosine similarity to find the most relevant legal text.

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GPT-4o Generation

Sector-specific prompts guide GPT-4o to synthesize chunks into clear, actionable legal answers.

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Cited Answer

Receive your answer with section references, translated back to your language if needed.

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FastAPI FAISS GPT-4o SentenceTransformers MarianMT PyMuPDF Python
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Supports Hindi, Marathi, & English · Voice input · Sector-aware answers