Structured Sections from Major Indian Legal Acts

7 major Indian statutes, including the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, are provided in a structured, machine-readable format. The dataset was created by ThanniruVenkata and was last updated in April 2026. Each entry represents a section or chunk of a section from these legal acts.

Use Cases

• Train a text classification model to categorize legal sections by their originating act (e.g., BNS, CrPC, CPC).
• Fine-tune a language model for legal named entity recognition on entities like section numbers and legal terms within the structured text.
• Build a semantic search engine over Indian statutes using embeddings generated from the dataset's section text.
• Analyze the linguistic structure and complexity of legal language across different acts like the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 and the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988.

Strengths

• Covers 7 major Indian statutes, providing a focused legal corpus.
• Data is explicitly structured for machine-readability, aiding NLP tasks.
• Includes recent legislation like the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.

Limitations

• The total number of rows (sections) and file size are unknown.
• Specific column structure and data schema are not provided in the input.
• Coverage is limited to the listed 7 acts, not the entirety of Indian law.

Provenance

Source

Text from major Indian statutes (e.g., BNS, CrPC, CPC, IEA).

Collection Method

Structured extraction of sections or chunks from legal acts; specific method unknown.

Time Range

Acts range from 1869 (Indian Divorce Act) to 2023 (Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita).

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-04-04.

Geography

India.