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Auteurs principaux: Srivastava, Puspesh Kumar, Raj, Uddeshya, Patel, Praveen, Nigam, Shubham Kumar, Shallum, Noel, Bhattacharya, Arnab
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Publié: 2025
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author Srivastava, Puspesh Kumar
Raj, Uddeshya
Patel, Praveen
Nigam, Shubham Kumar
Shallum, Noel
Bhattacharya, Arnab
author_facet Srivastava, Puspesh Kumar
Raj, Uddeshya
Patel, Praveen
Nigam, Shubham Kumar
Shallum, Noel
Bhattacharya, Arnab
contents Bail decisions are among the most frequently adjudicated matters in Indian courts, yet they remain plagued by subjectivity, delays, and inconsistencies. With over 75% of India's prison population comprising undertrial prisoners, many from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds, the lack of timely and fair bail adjudication exacerbates human rights concerns and contributes to systemic judicial backlog. In this paper, we present the Indian Bail Prediction System (IBPS), an AI-powered framework designed to assist in bail decision-making by predicting outcomes and generating legally sound rationales based solely on factual case attributes and statutory provisions. We curate and release a large-scale dataset of 150,430 High Court bail judgments, enriched with structured annotations such as age, health, criminal history, crime category, custody duration, statutes, and judicial reasoning. We fine-tune a large language model using parameter-efficient techniques and evaluate its performance across multiple configurations, with and without statutory context, and with RAG. Our results demonstrate that models fine-tuned with statutory knowledge significantly outperform baselines, achieving strong accuracy and explanation quality, and generalize well to a test set independently annotated by legal experts. IBPS offers a transparent, scalable, and reproducible solution to support data-driven legal assistance, reduce bail delays, and promote procedural fairness in the Indian judicial system.
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spellingShingle IBPS: Indian Bail Prediction System
Srivastava, Puspesh Kumar
Raj, Uddeshya
Patel, Praveen
Nigam, Shubham Kumar
Shallum, Noel
Bhattacharya, Arnab
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Bail decisions are among the most frequently adjudicated matters in Indian courts, yet they remain plagued by subjectivity, delays, and inconsistencies. With over 75% of India's prison population comprising undertrial prisoners, many from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds, the lack of timely and fair bail adjudication exacerbates human rights concerns and contributes to systemic judicial backlog. In this paper, we present the Indian Bail Prediction System (IBPS), an AI-powered framework designed to assist in bail decision-making by predicting outcomes and generating legally sound rationales based solely on factual case attributes and statutory provisions. We curate and release a large-scale dataset of 150,430 High Court bail judgments, enriched with structured annotations such as age, health, criminal history, crime category, custody duration, statutes, and judicial reasoning. We fine-tune a large language model using parameter-efficient techniques and evaluate its performance across multiple configurations, with and without statutory context, and with RAG. Our results demonstrate that models fine-tuned with statutory knowledge significantly outperform baselines, achieving strong accuracy and explanation quality, and generalize well to a test set independently annotated by legal experts. IBPS offers a transparent, scalable, and reproducible solution to support data-driven legal assistance, reduce bail delays, and promote procedural fairness in the Indian judicial system.
title IBPS: Indian Bail Prediction System
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07592