In my 17 years as a software engineer, I learned that a hash value doesn't lie. If a file's integrity is verified, you run it. You don't ask for a printed version of the binary code to "understand" it. But as I finish my 6th semester of law, I’ve realised the courtroom doesn't always work at the speed of light. For years, we’ve been stuck in a loop where digital video was treated like a second-class citizen that needed a "paper passport" (a transcript) to enter the record. The recent case of Kailash v. State of Maharashtra (2025) has finally...
As a 45-year-old law student who spent 17 years in the "Silicon Valley" of systems engineering before shifting to the "Shastri Bhawan" of legal codes, I’ve learned that the most dangerous bugs aren't always in the software; sometimes, they are in the International Order. On March 4, 2026, a "system crash" occurred in the Indian Ocean that every aspiring lawyer and IT professional needs to analyse. The sinking of the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena by a US Navy torpedo isn't just a headline; it’s a masterclass in the breakdown of Maritime Law and the emergence of Cyber-Physical Warfare. The "Innocent...
In the world of system-level programming, we have a saying: Garbage In, Garbage Out. But in the hallowed halls of the Supreme Court of India, a new and more dangerous iteration has emerged: Probability In, Perjury Out. Recently, a bench led by CJI Surya Kant and Justice Nagarathna expressed formal alarm over a trend that sounds like a tech-thriller plot but is a cold reality: lawyers are submitting petitions filled with "hallucinated" case law. From the fictitious Mercy v. Mankind to a series of fake judgments cited before Justice Dipankar Datta, the legal "craft" is facing a critical system failure....
