dheerajpabolu/Indian_Laws_Structured_Legal_Dataset

📚 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.

🎯 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

🏗️ 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

🧠 Key Features

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

🚀 Example Use Cases

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

⚠️ Limitations

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

📜 License

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

🤝 Contributions

Contributions are welcome:

• —Add more acts
• —Improve annotations
• —Include case law or summaries