When Utkarsh Saxena clerked for a Justice of the Supreme Court of India in 2012, he witnessed firsthand how India's judicial crisis was strangling justice for millions. Today, his creation, Adalat AI, is rewriting that story, one courtroom at a time.
India's courts are drowning under 50 million backlogged cases that would take 300 years to clear at the current pace. Behind this staggering statistic lies human suffering: over 400,000 people imprisoned without trial, families torn apart by delays, and marginalized communities bearing the heaviest burden. Born from research at Harvard, MIT, and Oxford, Adalat AI refuses to accept this as inevitable.
The company's AI-powered solutions transform courtrooms through real-time speech-to-text transcription that understands legal jargon across 15+ Indian languages with over 90% accuracy. What makes this remarkable isn't just the technology—it's the impact. Judges who once heard two to three witnesses daily now handle five to six, dramatically expediting trials.
Adalat's integrated platform goes beyond transcription, offering case flow management systems that pull real-time case details and intelligent document processing that digitizes court records. Rather than replacing human workers, these tools enhance the efficiency of stenographers, judges, and court staff, addressing the core problem: the shortage of skilled stenographers forcing judges to transcribe proceedings by hand.
Meet the team
Adalat AI, on LinkedIn
Utkarsh Saxena, CEO
Arghya Bhattacharya, Co-founder & CEO
The people of Adalat AI
Since launching in January 2024, Adalat has reached over 2,000 courts across eight Indian states. The Delhi High Court hailed their official launch as a "game-changer" for India's judiciary. Their training programmes, co-developed with Judicial Academies, are now integrated into curriculum across multiple states, ensuring sustainable adoption.
Led by Utkarsh—who combines a decade of legal practice with degrees from Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School—and CTO Arghya Bhattacharya, whose AI expertise spans publications at ACL and CoNLL conferences, the team brings rare depth to both technology and legal domains.
By 2025, Adalat aims to reach half of India's courts, with plans for all Indian courts by 2027 and expansion to five additional countries by that same year. Their technology reduces case timelines by 30-50%, proving that justice delayed need not be justice denied.
