dheerajpabolu/Indian_Laws_Structured_Legal_Dataset

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license: mit
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# 📚 Indian Legal Acts Dataset (Structured Sections)

## 🧾 Overview

This dataset provides structured, machine-readable legal text from major Indian statutes, including:

- Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS)
- Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC)
- Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (CPC)
- Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (IEA)
- Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (NIA)
- Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (MVA)
- Indian Divorce Act, 1869 (IDA)

Each entry represents a **section or chunk of a section**, enriched with metadata for efficient retrieval and NLP applications.

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## 🎯 Intended Use

This dataset is designed for:

- Legal question answering systems
- Semantic search and document retrieval
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines
- Legal text classification
- Training domain-specific language models

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## 🏗️ Data Structure

Each record contains:

- Act-level metadata (name, code, effective date)
- Structural hierarchy (chapter, section)
- Legal content (full section text)
- Search-optimized text (`search_text`)
- Chunking support for long sections

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## 🧠 Key Features

- ✅ Structured legal hierarchy
- ✅ Chunked for LLM compatibility
- ✅ Optimized for vector search
- ✅ Multi-domain legal coverage
- ✅ High-quality statutory text

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## 🚀 Example Use Cases

- Build legal chatbots
- Create semantic legal search engines
- Implement RAG pipelines with LLMs
- Perform legal document classification

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## ⚠️ Limitations

- Does not include judicial interpretations or case law
- Legal language may require domain expertise
- Some sections are split into multiple chunks

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## 📜 License

This dataset contains publicly available legal texts. Users should ensure compliance with applicable laws and data usage policies in their jurisdiction.

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## 🤝 Contributions

Contributions are welcome:
- Add more acts
- Improve annotations
- Include case law or summaries

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