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title: "Legal Research Guides for Indian Advocates | Vakilat"
description: "Authoritative guides for Indian advocates on legal research with AI, checking Supreme Court citations, and navigating the new criminal laws."
url: https://www.vakilat.io/guides
publisher: "Vakilat"
---

Guides

# Guides for legal research in India

Last updated 27 October 2026

Practical guides for Indian advocates on researching the law with AI, and the reference pages behind Vakilat: the new criminal laws, how answers are checked, and which judgments Vakilat holds.

## Guides

- [Using AI for legal research in India without citation risk](https://www.vakilat.io/guides/ai-legal-research-india) What the Supreme Court and High Courts said in 2025 and 2026 about fake AI citations, six checks to run before you cite, and the proposed rule on declaring AI use.
- [How to check a Supreme Court citation before you cite it](https://www.vakilat.io/guides/check-supreme-court-citation) Neutral citations and the Supreme Court Reports, finding the judgment and the paragraph on the Court's own website, and what to check before you rely on it.
- [IPC or BNS: which criminal law applies to your case](https://www.vakilat.io/guides/ipc-or-bns-which-law-applies) The repeal and savings sections of the BNS, BNSS and BSA in their own words, with three common situations worked through.

## Reference

- [IPC to BNS, CrPC to BNSS, Evidence Act to BSA](https://www.vakilat.io/law) Every section of the old criminal codes with its counterpart, the official text of both, and the rule on which code applies.
- [How Vakilat checks each answer](https://www.vakilat.io/citation-checks) What each citation and quotation check means, with a real example, and what no check can tell you.
- [Supreme Court judgments in Vakilat](https://www.vakilat.io/coverage) The judgments held for every year since 1950, compared with the Court's own lists, and the known gaps.
- [Vakilat on film](https://www.vakilat.io/videos) Short narrated films of real research, each with a full transcript.
- [Vakilat and other legal research tools](https://www.vakilat.io/compare) Vakilat beside SCC Online, Manupatra, CaseMine, Indian Kanoon, AI chatbots and the free portals.