Sanction teardown · High Court Bombay, India · 2025-10-06
KMG Wires Private Limited v. The National Faceless Assessment Centre et al.
What happened
In High Court Bombay, India, a filing relied on an unnamed/unconfirmed AI tool to help draft legal argument. The court identified the following problems with the citations in that filing:
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Fabricated (Case Law)Assessing Officer relied on three judicial decisions to include opening balance in peak-balance calculation; the court found those decisions to be non-existent and directed Respondent to show source.
Which AI tool
an unnamed/unconfirmed AI tool. Note: Charlotin's public database records tool attribution only where a court order, brief, or reporting on the matter states it explicitly; "unidentified" or "implied" means the record indicates AI use but does not name a specific product — we do not guess.
Outcome
Assessment quashed and set aside
Additional detail
Assessing Officer relied on three judicial decisions that the court found to be non-existent. The court observed such citations appear to have been fetched (implicitly) from AI and admonished that quasi-judicial officers must verify AI-generated results before relying on them; held Assessment Order violated principles of natural justice and remanded matter.
How Citation Safe would have caught this
Citation Safe runs three deterministic layers before a brief is filed: (1) does the citation exist against CourtListener's database of published opinions, (2) if quoted, does that exact language appear in the source, (3) does the cited case actually support the proposition it is cited for. Fabricated case citations fail Layer 1. Fabricated or misattributed quotations fail Layer 2 even when the underlying case is real. Misrepresented holdings — a real case cited for a proposition it does not support — are the target of Layer 3. None of these checks involve asking another language model whether the citation looks right; they are lookups and text-matches against the actual source, which is why a hallucinated citation has to survive a direct lookup against the authoritative source — not another model's opinion — to earn a VERIFIED stamp; our measured false-verify rate is published live at /quality.
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Source: https://www.damiencharlotin.com/documents/925/KMG-Wires-Private-Limited.pdf, via Damien Charlotin's public AI Hallucination Cases Database (CC0).