10 cases that show Indian courts have an AI hallucination problem

The Supreme Court’s latest judgment can be accessed here . The Supreme Court’s (SC) July 2, 2026, ruling declaring zero tolerance for Artificial Intelligence (AI)-generated fake precedents was, in its own words, “yet again a case” of a tribunal relying on hallucinated material. Fabricated citations, judgments that do not exist, or real ones stuffed with invented paragraphs have surfaced across tribunals, trial courts, and High Courts (HCs) over the past year, with several cases clustered in the