Overview
- NARIT AI, which Gujarat Police launched Friday in Gandhinagar, is billed by officials as the first AI investigation tool used by a state force in India.
- The system reads First Information Reports, flags strengths and weak spots, and then produces an investigation plan with dos and don’ts, an evidence checklist, and suggested legal steps.
- Built on retrieval‑augmented generation, it runs on a closed database of Supreme Court and High Court judgments, the NDPS Act and related criminal codes, plus government circulars, and it does not use the open internet.
- Developed by Western Railway Police in Vadodara with a Mumbai startup under DGP K. L. N. Rao and Surat Police Commissioner Anupam Singh Gehlot, the project was initiated by SP Abhay Soni.
- Officials say the tool will act as a force multiplier by guiding officers of any rank through NDPS procedures, predicting likely defence arguments, and helping prosecutors prepare rebuttals to lift conviction rates.