Why Supreme Court set aside tribunal order
Six AI-hallucinated judgments formed the basis for the Supreme Court’s striking down of an order passed by the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) on Thursday. Three of the cited judgments did not exist, while the remaining three either did not contain the propositions attributed to them or did not correspond to the context for which they were cited. For instance, the NCLT order cited a 2019 judgment ICICI Bank Ltd v Urban Infrastructure Real Estate Ltd., which did not exist. Along with it, the 2021 case V S Dempo & Co Ltd v Reliance Communications Ltd and the 2022 case Sarbjit Singh v Union Bank of India were also found to be non-existent. Two of the judgments, Everest Kento Cylinders Ltd v Union of India (2015) and Canara Bank v N G Subbaraya Setty (2018), were genuine, but the passages quoted from them are not found in the judgments themselves. The sixth judgment, State Bank of India v M/s Shree Ram Urban Infrastructure Ltd, 2020 SCC OnLine SC 341, corresponded to a different case, namely …
